Forbes Hill
Forbes Hill is a suburb in Moray, Scotland. Forbes Hill is situated nearby to the locality Practice Area, as well as near the hamlet Cathay.Places of Interest
Highlights include Sueno’s Stone and Mosset Park.
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.
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.
Forres Academy
School
Forres Academy is a comprehensive community school serving the town of Forres, Scotland, and its rural catchment area in west Moray. As in other Scottish schools, pupils are able to leave after the fourth year of schooling; therefore, the fifth and sixth years are not compulsory.
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 1½ miles northeast of Forbes Hill.
Rafford
Village
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rafford is a village in Moray, Scotland. It is approximately 2.5 miles southeast of the town of Forres, and 5.5 miles northwest of the village of Dallas. Rafford is situated 2 miles south of Forbes Hill.
Forbes Hill
- Type: Suburb
- Category: locality
- Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.61331° or 57° 36′ 48″ northLongitude
-3.58896° or 3° 35′ 20″ westOpen location code
9C9RJC76+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 527812745OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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