Oak Hill Wood

Places of Interest

Rodney’s Stone

Photo: Calgacus, Public domain.

Rodney's Stone is a two-metre high Pictish cross slab now located close on the approach way to Brodie Castle, near Forres, Moray, Scotland. It was originally found nearby in the grounds of the old church of Dyke and Moy.

Dyke Parish Church

Church

Photo: Ann Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dyke Parish Church is a Georgian church in Dyke, a village in Moray. In active use by the Church of Scotland since it was built in 1781, it stands on the site of a mediaeval church, and incorporates an older mausoleum, which is now the church hall and vestry.

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.

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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.

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.

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