Tain
Tain is a town in Easter Ross in the Scottish Highlands, with a population of 3570 in 2020. It's on the coast 40 miles north of Inverness on the A9 and the railway line to Thurso.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Tain railway station and Tain & District Museum.
Tain railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Lucas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tain railway station is an unstaffed railway station serving the area of Tain in the Highland council area of Scotland. The station is on the Far North Line, 44 miles 23 chains from Inverness, between Fearn and Ardgay.
Tain & District Museum
Museum
The Tain & District Museum is located in Tain, Ross-shire, Scotland. It is volunteer-run and is open April to October part of the Tain Through Time visitor centre. The museum was established in 1966 and has a collection of silver made in the local area.
Glenmorangie distillery
Distillery
Photo: Jack Shainsky, CC BY 2.0.
Glenmorangie distillery is a distillery in Tain, Ross-shire, Scotland, that produces single malt Scotch whisky. The distillery is owned by The Glenmorangie Company Ltd, whose main product is the range of Glenmorangie single malt whisky.
Tain
- Type: Town with 3,570 residents
- Description: town and royal burgh in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Categories: village, small burgh, and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.8119° or 57° 48′ 43″ northLongitude
-4.0551° or 4° 3′ 18″ westPopulation
3,570Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB TINOpen location code
9C9QRW6V+QXOpenStreetMap ID
node 26482232OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Tain” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Tain”
- Bengali: “তাইন”
- Catalan: “Tain”
- Cebuano: “Tain”
- Chinese: “泰恩”
- Czech: “Tain”
- Dutch: “Tain”
- French: “Tain”
- German: “Tain”
- Gujarati: “ટૈન”
- Hebrew: “טאין”
- Irish: “Baile Dhubhthaich”
- Italian: “Tain”
- Japanese: “タイン”
- Japanese: “テイン (スコットランド)”
- Kannada: “ಟೈನ್”
- Korean: “타닌”
- Lithuanian: “Tainas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tain”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tain”
- Norwegian: “Tain”
- Persian: “تاین”
- Polish: “Tain”
- Portuguese: “Tain”
- Russian: “Тейн”
- Russian: “Тэйн”
- Scots: “Tain”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile Dhubhthaich”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tain”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tain”
- South Azerbaijani: “تاین”
- Spanish: “Baile Dhubhthaich”
- Spanish: “Tain”
- Swedish: “Tain, Skottland”
- Swedish: “Tain”
- Tamil: “டைன்”
- Telugu: “టైన్”
- Turkish: “Tain”
- Ukrainian: “Тейн”
- Urdu: “تیں”
- Welsh: “Tain”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tain”. Photo: Postdlf, CC BY-SA 3.0.