Altyre Wood

Altyre Wood is a forest in Moray, Scotland. Altyre Wood is situated nearby to the locality Cowgreens Wood, as well as near the hamlet Blairs.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Darnaway Castle and Dallas Dhu distillery.

Darnaway Castle

Castle

Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Darnaway Castle, also known as Tarnaway Castle, is located in Darnaway Forest, 3 miles southwest of Forres in Moray, Scotland. This was Comyn land, given to Thomas Randolph along with the Earldom of Moray by King Robert I.

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.

Doune of Relugas

Fort

The Doune of Relugas is a hill fort located 9.25 kilometres south south west of Forres in Moray, Scotland. It is situated on a rocky knoll rising to approximately 400 feet above ordnance datum and forming the south east part of the promontory at the confluence of the River Findhorn and the River Divie.

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.

Dyke

Village

Photo: Ann Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dyke is a small village situated in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast, approximately 4 miles west of Forres. The origin of the name of the parish of Dyke is supposed to be the Gaelic word dìg, signifying a water drain or ditch.

Altyre Wood

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

57.5612° or 57° 33′ 40″ north

Longitude

-3.6428° or 3° 38′ 34″ west

Open location code

9C9RH964+FV

OpenStreetMap ID

way 890766015

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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