Urquhart Castle

Urquhart Castle is a station in Highland Council, Scotland. Urquhart Castle is situated nearby to the ruins Grant Tower, as well as near Gatehouse.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Loch Ness and Urquhart Castle.

Loch Ness

Photo: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Loch Ness is a lake or loch which runs for 23 miles along the fault line of the Great Glen in the Scottish Highlands. It's a mile wide, very deep, and dark with peat.

Urquhart Castle

Castle

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Urquhart Castle is a ruined castle that sits beside Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland. The castle is on the A82 road, 21 kilometres southwest of Inverness and two kilometres east of Drumnadrochit. Urquhart Castle is situated 400 feet south of Urquhart Castle.

Benleva Hotel, Drumnadrochit

Hotel

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Benleva Hotel, Drumnadrochit is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Urquhart Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Strone and Lewiston.

Strone

Hamlet

Strone is a small hamlet in the administrative county of the Scottish Highlands and in the historic county of Inverness-shire. It is adjacent to the well-known Urquhart Castle, which is itself located on Strone Point, a headland extending into Loch Ness.

Lewiston

Village

Photo: Richard Haworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Lewiston is a small linear village, situated less than 1 mile southeast of Drumnadrochit, in Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

Drumnadrochit

Photo: Immanuel Giel, Public domain.

Drumnadrochit is a village in the Great Glen, the fault line that traverses the Scottish Highlands. With a population of 1130 in 2020, it stands on the west shore of Loch Ness at the outlet of the River Enrick.

Urquhart Castle

Type: Station
Categories: passenger ship terminal and transportation
Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.3252° or 57° 19′ 31″ north

Longitude

-4.44252° or 4° 26′ 33″ west

Open location code

9C9Q8HG4+3X

OpenStreetMap ID

node 806857736

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=ferry_terminal

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=station

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