Plockton
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Plockton railway station and Duncraig railway station.
Plockton railway station
Railway station
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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.
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 Castle
Castle
Photo: Richard Szwejkowski, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Duncraig Castle is a mansion in Lochalsh, in the west of the Scottish Highlands. A category-C listed building, it is situated in the Highland council area, east of the village of Plockton on the south shore of Loch Carron.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Duirinish and Barleyport.
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.
Drumbuie
Hamlet
Drumbuie is a settlement situated less than 1 mile southwest of Duirinish in Lochalsh, Scottish Highlands and is in the council area of Highland. The fishing hamlet of Erbusaig is located less than one mile to the southwest. Drumbuie is situated 2 miles southwest of Plockton.
Plockton
- Type: Village with 468 residents
- Description: village in Lochalsh, Highland, Scotland, UK
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.3381° or 57° 20′ 17″ northLongitude
-5.6519° or 5° 39′ 7″ westPopulation
468Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PLOOpen location code
9C9P88QX+66OpenStreetMap ID
node 25376332OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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