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An architectural oddity Ardclach Bell Tower is an architectural oddity. It is very small – about 4.3m2 overall – and has only two storeys. The ground floor may well have been a prison, judging by its small door and lack of windows. The flo...
Started by Baron Schroder in the late 19th century, hill paths meander through 20 acres of conifers and rhododendrons.
Totally transformed after the 1980 storms by owner Nicky Macpherson, it is an artist's garden designed to frame the magnificent ...
Beinn Eighe is mostly owned by Scottish Natural Heritage, with 600 hectares owned by the National Trust for Scotland (NTS). The reserve is home to a whole range of internationally important habitats including juniper heaths and lichen populations, ge...
Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles. Standing at 1,344 metres (4,409 ft) above sea level, it is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William....
Ben Nevis Distillery will show the way and tell the secrets of Whisky distilling.
Ben Nevis Distillery established in 1825, is one of the oldest licensed distilleries in Scotland. The distillery is nestled at the foot of Britain's highest mountain...
Lying seven miles south-west of Thurso, Broubster Leans is a diverse mosaic of wet grassland, pools, channels and rush pasture, nestled in farmland, making it an ideal place for wildlife. Its high value for nature is reflected in the many designation...
A feature in the landscape This burial tomb has been a feature of the landscape for 5,000 years. It is surrounded by prehistoric remains spanning thousands of years of human activity. The original tomb was a small, round cairn with a central b...
The Caithness Broch Centre explores three key areas:
The 19th- and early 20th-century communities who first excavated the brochs; the communities who lived in the brochs; and the legacies the brochs bring to the present day communities.
Brochs...
The 'Caledonian Canal Heritage Centre' is situated at the side of the dramatic flight of locks at Fort Augustus. Attractively presented in a converted lock-keepers cottage, the professionally designed displays give a unique 'history' of the canal, it...
Uniquely Scottish Carn Liath is a fine example of a broch – a type of fortification found only in Scotland. There are well over 500 of them across the country, the majority in northern and western Scotland and the islands. Brochs emerged in ...
One of Scotland’s oldest castles The Castle of Old Wick was probably built by an earl of Caithness in the 1100s, making it one of the oldest castles in Scotland. It was built at a time when the kings of Norway held sway over Caithness and Su...
Cnoc Freiceadain Long Cairns are two unexcavated long-horned burial cairns of Neolithic date, set at right angles to each other....
Cromarty Courthouse Museum invites you to explore one of Scotland's secrets.
Our museum, in the town's eighteenth - century Courthouse, uses extensive research and enthusiasm for history to help you share in the story of Cromarty - past and prese...
The most northerly point in mainland Britain, Dunnet Head has stunning sea cliffs and coastal grassland. These are home to puffins, razorbills, guillemots, fulmars, kittiwakes, shags and cormorants, and we're undertaking some work on the grassland to...
Dunrobin Castle is the most northerly of Scotland's great houses and the largest in the Northern Highlands with 189 rooms. Dunrobin Castle is also one of Britain's oldest continuously inhabited houses dating back to the early 1300s, home to the Earls...
As one of the most iconic images of Scotland, Eilean Donan is recognised all around the world. Situated on an island at the point where three great sea lochs meet, and surrounded by some majestic scenery, it is little wonder that the castle is now on...
Walkers who venture out into this far-flung Highland territory are rewarded with a view of one of the highest waterfalls in Britain, at 113m (370ft). The Falls of Glomach are set in a steep narrow cleft in remote country and can only be reached on fo...
Forsinard Flows Nature Reserve is a threatened landscape, peatlands have vanished across much of Scotland, but the RSPB is helping to preserve this vital area of internationally important habitat. Summer is the time to come, when golden plovers, h...
The museum takes you on a journey through time showing how local people lived and worked in Gairloch through the ages.
Here you can marvel at how stone age and bronze age people existed with relatively limited technology and (to us) primitive uten...
Here on the shore of Loch Sunart, on the rugged Ardnamurchan peninsula, wood warblers nest in the spring, along with redstarts, spotted flycatchers and common woodland birds. You may well see an otter along the shore, and seals are common.
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Homes of the dead The two Grey Cairns of Camster are among the oldest stone monuments in Scotland. They were built over 5,000 years ago. Even before their excavation and restoration by Historic Scotland in the later 20th century they were two ...
Hill O' Many Stanes has more than 22 rows of low slabs arranged in a slightly fan-shaped pattern, which may have been a prehistoric astronomical observatory....
The museum comprises an elegant three-storey Georgian villa housing six rooms of exhibits covering Hugh Miller's life and work, and the thatched 18th century cottage next door where he was born
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Osgood Mackenzie's plan to create a garden from windswept moorland on a rocky peninsula beside Loch Ewe raised a few eyebrows in its day. His vision is still astonishing today, with some of the world's largest growing trees planted into holes hewn ou...
Inverlochy Castle is a fine well-preserved 13th-century castle of the Comyn family; in the form of a square, with round towers at the corners. The largest tower of Inverlochy Castle was the donjon or keep. Inverlochy Castle is one of Scotland,...
Nevis Range offers the highest skiing in Scotland , with a great record for good snow-conditions running late into the season. Situated in the shadow of Ben Nevis , the pistes have a stunning backdrop with some of the most spectacular views that any ...
St Mary's Chapel, Crosskirk is a simple dry-stone chapel, probably of 12th-century date. Access to St Mary's Chapel, Crosskirk can be muddy....
The Steall waterfall is infamous. The walk starting off from the car park at the end of the Glen Nevis road is beautiful, though in places is a little open and could unnerving for people with a poor head for heights.
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This ruined castle is romantically situated on a rocky promontory jutting into Loch Carron, commanding fine views westwards to Skye. First recorded in 1472 when it was a stronghold of the Lords of the Isles, it later belonged to the MacDonnells of Gl...
The Jacobite Steam Train is regarded as one of the Great Railway Journeys of the World and was voted Top Railway Journey in the World 2009 by Wanderlust Magazine, due mainly to the stunning scenery through which you will be travelling. The 84 mile...
Timespan Museum and Arts Centre - a vibrant meeting place between our past and our future; linking culture, heritage, the arts, people and their ideas.
Timespan is situated in the centre of Helmsdale, Sutherland - the largest, but least populated...
With some of the most spectacular mountain scenery in Scotland, Torridon is a magnet for walkers, geologists and naturalists. The estate takes in Liathach, 1,054m (3,456ft)and Beinn Alligin, 985m (3,230ft), composed mainly of Torridonian sandstone da...
Ullapool Museum and Visitor Centre is a Multi Award Winning attraction.
Housed within a restored Thomas Telford Parliamentary Church, originally built in 1829, the Museum tells the story of Lochbroom - the land and its people, through a blend...
The West Highland Museum holds fascinating collections of pictures, photographs, archives and artefacts. Every object has a story of its own to tell and all together they throw light on life in the West Highlands from the stone tool cultures of the M...
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