Smithstown Wood

Smithstown Wood is a forest in Highland Council, Scotland. Smithstown Wood is situated near the village Ardersier, as well as near the locality Gollanfield.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Inverness Airport and Cromal Mount.

Inverness Airport

Aerodrome

Photo: Braveheart, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Inverness Airport is an international airport situated at Dalcross, 8 miles north-east of Inverness, Scotland. It is owned by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited.

Cromal Mount

Archaeological site

Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cromal Mount is an archaeological site.

Fort George is a large 18th-century fortress near Ardersier, to the north-east of Inverness in the Highland council area of Scotland. It was built to control the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, replacing a Fort George in Inverness constructed after the 1715 Jacobite rising to control the area.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ardersier and Tornagrain.

Ardersier

Village

Photo: Braveheart, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ardersier is a small former fishing village in the Scottish Highlands on the Moray Firth near Fort George, between Inverness and Nairn. Its name may be an anglicisation of the Gaelic "Àird nan Saor", or "Headland of the joiners", one local legend being that…

Tornagrain

Village

Photo: Richard Birchall, CC BY 2.0.

Tornagrain is a hamlet and planned village in the Scottish Highlands, situated around 7 miles northeast of Inverness. It falls within the Highland council area for local government purposes.

Clephanton

Hamlet

Clephanton is a small hamlet 2 miles south-east from Ardersier and 7 miles south-west of Nairn in Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands. It is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

Smithstown Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.5706° or 57° 34′ 14″ north

Longitude

-4.0069° or 4° 0′ 25″ west

Open location code

9C9QHXCV+67

OpenStreetMap ID

way 26294928

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Gollanfield and Carse of Ardesier.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Lagnagreishach Wood and Smithstown Wood.

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