Fort William
Fort William is a town at the foot of the Great Glen, on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands. It's the main transport, commercial and visitor hub for the area: its attractions include Ben Nevis, Nevis Range ski resort, the Caledonian Canal, and "The Jacobite" steam train.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,610 residents
- Description: town in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Fort William, Scotland”
- Neighbors: Kyle of Lochalsh
Photo: Jim Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort William railway station and West Highland Museum.
Fort William railway station
Railway station
Photo: Muffingg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort William railway station serves the town of Fort William, in the Highland region of Scotland. It is on the West Highland line, between Spean Bridge and Banavie, measured 99 miles 37 chains from Craigendoran Junction, at the southern end of the line near Helensburgh.
West Highland Museum
Museum
Photo: Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The West Highland Museum tells the story of the Scottish Highlands and the Islands. It aims to cover every aspect of West Highland history, including that of Fort William, where it is located in a listed building in the centre of the town.
Fort William Sheriff Court
Courthouse
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fort William Sheriff Court is a judicial building on the High Street in Fort William in Scotland. The building, which continues to be used as a courthouse, is a Category C listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Caol and Glen Nevis.
Caol
Village
Photo: Steven Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Caol is a village near Fort William, in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is about 1+1⁄4 miles north of Fort William town centre, on the shore of Loch Linnhe, and is within the parish of Kilmallie.
Glen Nevis
Village
Photo: Bert Kaufmann, CC BY 2.0.
Glen Nevis is a glen in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland, with Fort William at its foot. It is bordered to the south by the Mamore range, and to the north by the highest mountains in the British Isles: Ben Nevis, Càrn Mor Dearg, Aonach Mòr, and Aonach Beag.
Corpach
Village
Corpach is a large village north of Fort William, in the Scottish Highlands. The canal lock at Corpach Basin on Loch Linnhe, east of the narrows leading to Loch Eil, is the western sea entrance of the Caledonian Canal.
Fort William
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Inverness-shire, Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.8178° or 56° 49′ 4″ northLongitude
-5.111° or 5° 6′ 39″ westPopulation
5,610Elevation
79 feet (24 metres)IATA airport code
FWMUnited Nations Location Code
GB FWMOpen location code
9C8PRV9Q+4JOpenStreetMap ID
node 17917137OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2649169Wikidata ID
Q848909
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Fort William” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Fort William”
- Basque: “Fort William”
- Belarusian: “Форт-Уільям”
- Bengali: “ফোর্ট উইলিয়াম”
- Breton: “An Gearasdan”
- Catalan: “Fort William”
- Cebuano: “Fort William”
- Chinese: “威廉堡”
- Czech: “Fort William”
- Danish: “Fort William”
- Dutch: “An Gearasdan”
- Dutch: “Fort William”
- Dutch: “Gearasdan”
- Esperanto: “Fort William”
- Estonian: “Fort William”
- Faroese: “Fort William”
- Finnish: “Fort William”
- French: “Fort William”
- German: “Fort William”
- Gujarati: “ફોર્ટ વિલિયમ”
- Hebrew: “פורט ויליאם”
- Hungarian: “Fort William”
- Icelandic: “Fort William”
- Irish: “An Gearasdan”
- Italian: “Fort William”
- Japanese: “フォート・ウィリアム”
- Kalaallisut: “Fort William”
- Kannada: “ಫೋರ್ಟ್ ವಿಲಿಯಂ”
- Kazakh: “Форт-Уильям”
- Korean: “포트윌리엄”
- Latvian: “Fortviljama”
- Lithuanian: “Fort Viljamas”
- Manx: “An Gearasdan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort William”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fort William i Skottland”
- Norwegian: “Fort William”
- Persian: “فورت ویلیام، هایلند”
- Persian: “فورت ویلیام”
- Polish: “Fort William”
- Portuguese: “Fort William”
- Russian: “Форт Вильям”
- Russian: “Форт-Уильям”
- Scots: “The Fort”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Gearasdan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fort William”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fort William, Škotska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fort William”
- Slovenian: “Fort William, Škotska”
- South Azerbaijani: “فورت ویلیام، هایلند”
- Spanish: “Fort William”
- Swedish: “Fort William, Highland”
- Swedish: “Fort William”
- Tamil: “போர்ட் வில்லியம்”
- Telugu: “ఫోర్ట్ విలియం”
- Ukrainian: “Форт-Вільям”
- Urdu: “فورٹ ولیم”
- Welsh: “Fort William”
- Western Frisian: “Fort William”
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