Mercat Cross
Mercat Cross is a monument in Moray, Scotland. Mercat Cross is situated nearby to the courthouse The Tolbooth, as well as near Falconer Museum.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Forres railway station and Mosset Park.
Forres railway station
Railway station
Photo: Chris Morgan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Forres railway station serves the town of Forres, Moray in Scotland. The station is managed and served by ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen–Inverness line, between Nairn and Elgin, measured 119 miles 42 chains from Perth via the Dava route. Forres railway station is situated 2,200 feet west of Mercat Cross.
Mosset Park
Sports venue
Photo: Suxamethonium, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mosset Park is a football ground in the town of Forres in the north-east of Scotland, which is the home ground of Highland Football League side Forres Mechanics F.C. Mosset Park is situated 1,100 feet north of Mercat Cross.
Sueno’s Stone
Photo: Scott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sueno's Stone is a Picto-Scottish Class III standing stone on the north-easterly edge of Forres in Moray and is the largest surviving Pictish style cross-slab stone of its type in Scotland, standing 6.5 metres in height. Sueno’s Stone is situated 3,700 feet northeast of Mercat Cross.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forres and Kinloss.
Forres
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Forres is a town in Moray in northeast Scotland, with a population of 9090 in 2020. By the second century AD it was sufficiently famous to be mapped as Οὐάραρ εἴσχυσις — "Varar Estuary" — by Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria.
Kinloss
Village
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kinloss is a village in Moray, Scotland. It is located near the shore of Findhorn Bay, around 3 miles from Findhorn and 2.5 miles from Forres. Northeast of the village is Kinloss Barracks, formerly RAF Kinloss which opened on 1 April 1939. Kinloss is situated 2½ miles northeast of Mercat Cross.
Kintessack
Village
Kintessack is a small village in Moray, Scotland 3 miles north-west of Forres. It is located in the parish of Dyke and Moy,… Kintessack is situated 2½ miles west of Mercat Cross.
Mercat Cross
- Type: Monument
- Category: historic site
- Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.60985° or 57° 36′ 36″ northLongitude
-3.61341° or 3° 36′ 48″ westOpen location code
9C9RJ95P+WJOpenStreetMap ID
node 1334978013OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monument
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