Muckle Hill
Muckle Hill is a peak in Moray, Scotland. Muckle Hill is situated nearby to the locality The Gap, as well as near Acker (Sanny Cot).Places of Interest
Highlights include Kinloss Abbey and Kinloss Barracks.
Kinloss Abbey
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kinloss Abbey is a Cistercian abbey at Kinloss in the county of Moray, Scotland. The abbey was founded in 1150 by King David I "in order to extend the benefits of civilisation to the remoter regions under his sway." The legend of its founding is similar to that of the founding of Holyrood Abbey.
Kinloss Barracks
Military installation
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kinloss Barracks is a military installation located near the village of Kinloss, on the Moray Firth in the north of Scotland. Until 2012 it was a Royal Air Force station, RAF Kinloss.
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.
Findhorn
Village
Findhorn is a village in Moray, Scotland. It is located on the eastern shore of Findhorn Bay and immediately south of the Moray Firth. Findhorn is 3 miles northwest of Kinloss, and about 5 miles by road from Forres.
Muckle Hill
- Type: Peak
- Category: landform
- Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.6625° or 57° 39′ 45″ northLongitude
-3.5975° or 3° 35′ 51″ westOpen location code
9C9RMC73+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 7074488334OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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