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″ north

Longitude

-5.66591° or 5° 39′ 57″ west

Open location code

9C9P88MM+CJ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 7197380570

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=stop_position

OpenStreetMap feature

railway=stop

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