Plockton
Plockton is a railway stop in Highland Council, Scotland. Plockton is situated nearby to the peak Creag nan Garadh, as well as near the hamlet Duirinish.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Plockton railway station and Plockton Church, Innes Street, Plockton.
Plockton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Jim Barton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plockton railway station is a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Plockton in the Highlands, north-west Scotland. The station is 58 miles 22 chains from Dingwall, between Duncraig and Duirinish.
Plockton Church, Innes Street, Plockton
Church
Photo: Roger Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plockton Church, Innes Street, Plockton is situated 2,900 feet northeast of Plockton.
Duncraig railway station
Railway station
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Duncraig railway station is a remote railway station by the shore of Loch Carron on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, originally serving Duncraig Castle, a mansion near Plockton, in the Highland council area of northern Scotland. Duncraig railway station is situated 1 mile east of Plockton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plockton and Duirinish.
Plockton
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Plockton is a village on the west coast of Ross and Cromarty in the Scottish Highlands, with a population of 468 in 2020. In Scots slang a "plook" is a pimple, and The Plock is a small headland sheltering the harbour from the westerly weather.
Duirinish
Hamlet
Photo: Bert Kaufmann, CC BY 2.0.
Duirinish is a hamlet in Lochalsh near Plockton in Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. The hamlet is largely formed around the Allt Dhiuirnis river, which flows westward into the Inner Sound.
Barleyport
Hamlet
Photo: Chris MacKenzie, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Port an Eòrna is the Scottish Gaelic name for the small settlement of Barleyport, situated almost midway between Plockton and the Kyle of Lochalsh, in Ross-shire, Scotland, in the Western Highlands.
Plockton
- Type: Railway stop
- Categories: transport stop and transportation
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.33355° or 57° 20′ 1″ northLongitude
-5.66591° or 5° 39′ 57″ westOpen location code
9C9P88MM+CJOpenStreetMap ID
node 7197380570OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stop
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