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Knoydart

Knoydart is a peninsula in in the western Highlands of Scotland, bounded to the south by Loch Nevis and to the north by Loch Hourn. It's remote, rugged and sparsely populated, and best known for having the only villages in mainland Britain with no road connection to the rest of the network - nor even with each other.
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  • Type: Peninsula
  • Description: peninsula in Highland, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Cnòideart”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ladhar Bheinn and Sgùrr Coire Chòinnichean.

Peak
Photo: Grinner, CC BY 2.5.
is the highest mountain in the Knoydart region of the of . It is the most westerly Munro on the Scottish mainland. The mountain may be climbed from Barrisdale to the northeast or to the south.

Peak
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a peak.

Peak
Photo: Nigel Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a mountain with a height of 732 metres in Knoydart, in the of . It is on the southern shore of , north-west of the Munro of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Inverie.

Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Knoydart is a peninsula in in the western Highlands of Scotland, bounded to the south by Loch Nevis and to the north by Loch Hourn. It's remote, rugged and sparsely populated, and best known for having the only villages in mainland Britain with no road connection to the rest of the network - nor even with each other.

Knoydart

Latitude
57.0679° or 57° 4′ 5″ north
Longitude
-5.6429° or 5° 38′ 34″ west
Population
157
Open location code
9C9P3994+5R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13175158633
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peninsula
Wiki­data ID
Q2750709
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In Other Languages

From Breton to Swedish—“Knoydart” goes by many names.
  • Breton: “Cnoideart”
  • Breton: “Cnòideart”
  • Dutch: “Knoydart”
  • French: “Cnoideart”
  • French: “Knoydart”
  • German: “Knoydart”
  • Irish: “Cnòideart”
  • Japanese: “ノイダート”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Knoydart”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cnòideart”
  • Swedish: “Knoydart”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Knoydart”. Photo: Tjdenholm, CC BY 4.0.