Forres Academy
Forres Academy is a comprehensive community school serving the town of Forres, Scotland, and its rural catchment area in west Moray. As in other Scottish schools, pupils are able to leave after the fourth year of schooling; therefore, the fifth and sixth years are not compulsory.- Email: admin.forresacad@moray-edunet.gov.uk
- Type: School
- Description: secondary school in Moray, Scotland, UK
- Address: Burdsyard Road, IV36 1FG
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Forres railway station and Dallas Dhu distillery.
Forres railway station
Railway station
Photo: Chris Morgan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Forres railway station serves the town of Forres, Moray in Scotland. The station is managed and served by ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen–Inverness line, between Nairn and Elgin, measured 119 miles 42 chains from Perth via the Dava route. Forres railway station is situated 3,800 feet northwest of Forres Academy.
Dallas Dhu distillery
Museum
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dallas Dhu distillery is a inactive Speyside single malt Scotch whisky distillery located in Forres, Moray, Scotland. Dallas Dhu means "Black Water Valley" in Gaelic. Dallas Dhu distillery is situated 1 mile south of Forres Academy.
Sueno’s Stone
Photo: Scott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sueno's Stone is a Picto-Scottish Class III standing stone on the north-easterly edge of Forres in Moray and is the largest surviving Pictish style cross-slab stone of its type in Scotland, standing 6.5 metres in height. Sueno’s Stone is situated 1 mile northeast of Forres Academy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forres and Rafford.
Forres
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Forres is a town in Moray in northeast Scotland, with a population of 9090 in 2020. By the second century AD it was sufficiently famous to be mapped as Οὐάραρ εἴσχυσις — "Varar Estuary" — by Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria.
Rafford
Village
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rafford is a village in Moray, Scotland. It is approximately 2.5 miles southeast of the town of Forres, and 5.5 miles northwest of the village of Dallas. Rafford is situated 2 miles southeast of Forres Academy.
Kintessack
Village
Kintessack is a small village in Moray, Scotland 3 miles north-west of Forres. It is located in the parish of Dyke and Moy,… Kintessack is situated 2½ miles northwest of Forres Academy.
Forres Academy
- Categories: secondary school and education
- Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.60331° or 57° 36′ 12″ northLongitude
-3.61119° or 3° 36′ 40″ westOperator
The Moray CouncilOpen location code
9C9RJ93Q+8GOpenStreetMap ID
way 118595371OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=schoolWikidata ID
Q5470414
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to French—“Forres Academy” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Acadèmia de Forres”
- French: “Forres Academy”
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Highlights include Forres Swimming Pool & Fitness Centre and Roysvale Park.
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