Plockton
Plockton is an electrical substation in Highland Council, Scotland. Plockton is situated nearby to the islet Eilean nan Gamhainn, as well as near the hamlet Duirinish.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Plockton Church, Innes Street, Plockton and Plockton railway station.
Plockton Church, Innes Street, Plockton
Church
Photo: Roger Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plockton Church, Innes Street, Plockton is situated 930 feet south of Plockton.
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. Plockton railway station is situated 3,300 feet southwest of Plockton.
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 railway station is situated 3,400 feet east of Plockton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plockton and Duirinish.
Plockton
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Duirinish
Hamlet
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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. Duirinish is situated 1½ miles southwest of Plockton.
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. Barleyport is situated 2 miles southwest of Plockton.
Plockton
- Type: Electrical substation
- Category: industry
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.33958° or 57° 20′ 23″ northLongitude
-5.65347° or 5° 39′ 13″ westOperator
SSE Power DistributionOpen location code
9C9P88QW+RJOpenStreetMap ID
way 348781769
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