Kinross
Kinross is a small town in Perth and Kinross, 13 miles south of Perth. With a population of 5650 in 2021, it stands on the shores of Loch Leven, with the scarp of the Lomond Hills looming to the east and a mysterious giant golf ball to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Euchiasmus, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lochleven Castle and Burleigh Castle.
Lochleven Castle
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lochleven Castle is a ruined castle on an island in Loch Leven, in the Perth and Kinross local authority area of Scotland. Possibly built around 1300, the castle was the site of military action during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Burleigh Castle
Castle
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The remains of Burleigh Castle are located just outside the village of Milnathort, 1.5 miles north of Kinross, in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The castle dates from the 15th and 16th centuries, and now sits beside the A911 road, opposite a 19th-century steading, recently adapted into housing.
Loch Leven railway station
Historic site
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch Leven railway station served the burgh of Kinross, Perth and Kinross, Scotland from 1860 to 1921 on the Kinross-shire Railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Milnathort and Balado.
Milnathort
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Milnathort is a small town in the parish of Orwell in the county of Kinross-shire, Scotland and since 1996, the local council area of Perth and Kinross.
Balado
Village
Royal Air Force Balado Bridge or more simply RAF Balado Bridge is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located 2 miles west of Kinross, in central Scotland.
Cleish
Village
Photo: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cleish is a rural hamlet off the B9097 between Crook of Devon and the M90 motorway, three miles south-west of Kinross in central Scotland. It lies in the historic county of Kinross-shire. Cleish is situated 3 miles southwest of Kinross.
Kinross
- Type: Town with 5,340 residents
- Description: town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Perth and Kinross, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.2034° or 56° 12′ 12″ northLongitude
-3.4215° or 3° 25′ 17″ westPopulation
5,340Elevation
397 feet (121 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB KNROpen location code
9C8R6H3H+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 29346657OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Kinross” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kinross, Skotland”
- Asturian: “Kinross”
- Basque: “Kinross”
- Catalan: “Kinross”
- Cebuano: “Kinross”
- Chinese: “金罗斯”
- Chinese: “金羅斯”
- Dutch: “Kinross”
- French: “Kinross”
- German: “Kinross”
- Irish: “Ceann Rois”
- Italian: “Kinross”
- Japanese: “キンロス”
- Korean: “킨로스”
- Malagasy: “Kinross”
- Persian: “کینراس”
- Polish: “Kinross”
- Scots: “Kinross”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ceann Rois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kinross”
- Spanish: “Kinross”
- Swedish: “Kinross”
- Welsh: “Kinross”
- “Ceann Rois”
- “Kinross”
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