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Avoch

Avoch ( - mouth of the stream) is a harbour-village located on the Black Isle

Black Isle

The Black Isle is an eastern area of the Scottish Highlands Local government in Scotland Council areas of Scotland of Scotland, within the Counties of Scotland of Ross and Cromarty....
, on the Moray Firth

Moray Firth

The Moray Firth is a roughly triangular inlet of the North Sea, north and east of Inverness, which is in the Highland Council areas of Scotland of Scotland....
. The village's name is pronounced "Och" (as in the well-known Scots interjection "Och aye the noo").

Ormond Castle

Ormond Castle

Ormond Castle, also known as Avoch Castle, was a powerful stronghold, overlooking the village of Avoch, on the Black Isle, in the former county of Ross and Cromarty, now part of Highland , Scotland....
or Avoch Castle was a stronghold built on the site and served as a royal castle to William the Lion; passed on to the Morays of Petty then Archibald the Grim, Lord of Galloway, upon his marriage to Joanna de Moravia in 1362.

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Avoch ( - mouth of the stream) is a harbour-village located on the Black Isle

Black Isle

Moray Firth

Ormond Castle

Earl of Ormonde (Scottish)

The title Earl of Ormonde was twice created in the Peerage of Scotland, both times for members of the Clan Douglas. The first creation was in 1445 for a brother of the 8th and 9th Earl of Douglas....
from the castle. Legend has it that the village was founded by survivors of the Spanish Armada

Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada was the Habsburg Spain fleet that sailed against England under the command of the Alonso de Guzm?n El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia in 1588, leading to the Drake-Norris Expedition of 1589, also known as the English Armada....
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Intrepid Scottish-Canadian explorer Sir Alexander MacKenzie

Alexander Mackenzie

Alexander Mackenzie, Queen's Privy Council for Canada , a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Canada Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 9, 1878....
, the first European

Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
to explore the great Canadian river now known as the Mackenzie River

Mackenzie River

The Mackenzie River originates in Great Slave Lake, in the Northwest Territories, and flows north into the Arctic Ocean. It is the longest river in Canada at 1,738 km and, together with its headstreams the Peace River and the Finlay River, the second longest river in North America at 4,241 km in length....
, crossing North America

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
twice, to the Arctic Ocean

Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic North Pole region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions....
in 1789 and Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
in 1793, retired to Avoch in 1812 where he died in 1820 and was buried in the old Avoch Parish churchyard.

Avoch was the location of Rosehaugh (Pittanochtie) House, perhaps the most magnificent mansion house in the Scottish Highlands

Scottish Highlands

The Scottish Highlands include the rugged and mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east....
until it was demolished in the 1959.

Craigie Well at Avoch on the Black Isle has offerings of both coins and clouties. Rags, wool and human hair were also used as charms against sorcery, and as tokens of penenace and fulfilment of a vow (Sharp 1998).

Much of Avoch's wealth once came from its fishing industry, which in modern times has decreased with Cromarty

Cromarty

The Royal Burgh of Cromarty is a burgh in Ross and Cromarty, Highland , Scotland....
taking most of the business. Wildlife-watching boat trips still run, taking visitors to see the dolphins in the inner Moray Firth at Chanonry Point

Chanonry Point

Chanonry Point lies at the end of Chanonry Ness, a Spit of land extending into the Moray Firth between Fortrose and Rosemarkie on the Black Isle, Scotland....
. Tourists now provide much of the village's income.

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