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The Highland Council area (Sgìre Comhairle na Gàidhealtachd in Gaelic, ) is a local government area 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....
 and the largest local government area in both Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
 and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 as a whole. It shares borders with the council areas of Moray
Moray

Moray is one of the 32 Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland ....
, Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire is one of the 32 unitary authority council areas in Scotland.In this present day Aberdeenshire does not include Aberdeen City which is a Council Area in its own right....
, Perth and Kinross
Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross is one of Council Areas of Scotland in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire , Angus, Dundee City, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Stirling , Argyll and Bute and Highland council areas....
, and Argyll and Bute
Argyll and Bute

Argyll and Bute is both one of 32 Council areas of Scotland; and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland in Scotland. The administrative centre for the council area is located in Lochgilphead....
. Their councils, and those of Angus
Angus

Angus is one of the 32 Local government in Scotland council areas of Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland. The council area borders onto Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and the Dundee City....
 and Stirling
Stirling (council area)

Stirling is one of the 32 unitary Local government in Scotland council areas of Scotland, and has a population of about 85,000. It was created under the Local Government etc Act 1994 with the boundaries of the Stirling district of the former Central Regions and districts of Scotland, and it covers most of the former county of Stirling and...
, also have areas of the Scottish Highlands within their administrative boundaries. The Highland area covers most of the mainland and inner-Hebridean
Inner Hebrides

The Inner Hebrides is an archipelago off the west coast of Scotland, to the south east of the Outer Hebrides. They are part of the Hebrides....
 parts of the former counties
Counties of Scotland

The counties of Scotland were the principal subdivisions of Scotland of Scotland until 1975. Scotland's current Lieutenancy areas of Scotland and registration counties are largely based on them....
 of Inverness-shire
Inverness-shire

Inverness-shire also known as the county of Inverness, or Siorrachd Inbhir Nis in Scottish Gaelic, was a general purpose Counties of Scotland of Scotland, with the burgh of Inverness as the county town, until 1975, when, under the Local Government Act 1973, the county area was divided for Local government in Scotland purposes between th...
 and Ross and Cromarty
Ross and Cromarty

Ross and Cromarty is a vaguely or variously defined area in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. There is a registration county and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland in current use....
, all of Sutherland
Sutherland

Sutherland is a registration county, Lieutenancy areas of Scotland and historic administrative Counties of Scotland of Scotland. It is now within the Highland Council areas of Scotland....
, Caithness
Caithness

Caithness is a registration county, Lieutenancy areas of Scotland and historic Local government in Scotland of Scotland. The name was used also for the Earl of Caithness and the Caithness of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ....
 and Nairnshire, and small parts of Argyll
Argyll

Argyll, archaically Argyle , is a region of western Scotland corresponding with most of the part of ancient D?l Riata that was located on the island of Great Britain, and in a historical context can be used to mean the entire western seaboard between the Mull of Kintyre and Cape Wrath....
 and Moray.

Geography
The area was created as a two-tier region in 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973

The Local Government Act 1973 is an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, that reformed local government of Scotland in Scotland, on May 16, 1975....
, with an elected council for the whole region and, in addition, elected councils for each of eight districts, Badenoch and Strathspey, Caithness, Inverness, Lochaber, Nairn, Ross and Cromarty, Skye and Lochalsh and Sutherland.






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The Highland Council area (Sgìre Comhairle na Gàidhealtachd in Gaelic, ) is a local government area 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....
 and the largest local government area in both Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
 and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 as a whole. It shares borders with the council areas of Moray
Moray

Moray is one of the 32 Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland ....
, Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire is one of the 32 unitary authority council areas in Scotland.In this present day Aberdeenshire does not include Aberdeen City which is a Council Area in its own right....
, Perth and Kinross
Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross is one of Council Areas of Scotland in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire , Angus, Dundee City, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Stirling , Argyll and Bute and Highland council areas....
, and Argyll and Bute
Argyll and Bute

Argyll and Bute is both one of 32 Council areas of Scotland; and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland in Scotland. The administrative centre for the council area is located in Lochgilphead....
. Their councils, and those of Angus
Angus

Angus is one of the 32 Local government in Scotland council areas of Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland. The council area borders onto Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and the Dundee City....
 and Stirling
Stirling (council area)

Stirling is one of the 32 unitary Local government in Scotland council areas of Scotland, and has a population of about 85,000. It was created under the Local Government etc Act 1994 with the boundaries of the Stirling district of the former Central Regions and districts of Scotland, and it covers most of the former county of Stirling and...
, also have areas of the Scottish Highlands within their administrative boundaries. The Highland area covers most of the mainland and inner-Hebridean
Inner Hebrides

The Inner Hebrides is an archipelago off the west coast of Scotland, to the south east of the Outer Hebrides. They are part of the Hebrides....
 parts of the former counties
Counties of Scotland

The counties of Scotland were the principal subdivisions of Scotland of Scotland until 1975. Scotland's current Lieutenancy areas of Scotland and registration counties are largely based on them....
 of Inverness-shire
Inverness-shire

Inverness-shire also known as the county of Inverness, or Siorrachd Inbhir Nis in Scottish Gaelic, was a general purpose Counties of Scotland of Scotland, with the burgh of Inverness as the county town, until 1975, when, under the Local Government Act 1973, the county area was divided for Local government in Scotland purposes between th...
 and Ross and Cromarty
Ross and Cromarty

Ross and Cromarty is a vaguely or variously defined area in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. There is a registration county and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland in current use....
, all of Sutherland
Sutherland

Sutherland is a registration county, Lieutenancy areas of Scotland and historic administrative Counties of Scotland of Scotland. It is now within the Highland Council areas of Scotland....
, Caithness
Caithness

Caithness is a registration county, Lieutenancy areas of Scotland and historic Local government in Scotland of Scotland. The name was used also for the Earl of Caithness and the Caithness of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ....
 and Nairnshire, and small parts of Argyll
Argyll

Argyll, archaically Argyle , is a region of western Scotland corresponding with most of the part of ancient D?l Riata that was located on the island of Great Britain, and in a historical context can be used to mean the entire western seaboard between the Mull of Kintyre and Cape Wrath....
 and Moray.

Geography


The area was created as a two-tier region in 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973

The Local Government Act 1973 is an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, that reformed local government of Scotland in Scotland, on May 16, 1975....
, with an elected council for the whole region and, in addition, elected councils for each of eight districts, Badenoch and Strathspey, Caithness, Inverness, Lochaber, Nairn, Ross and Cromarty, Skye and Lochalsh and Sutherland. The act also abolished county and burgh
Burgh

A Burgh is an Wiktionary:Autonomy corporate entity in Scotland, usually a town. This type of administrative division has existed since the 12th century, when David I of Scotland created the first Royal burghs....
 councils. In 1996, under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994, the Highland Regional Council and the district councils were wound up and their functions were transferred to a new Highland Council. The Highland Council adopted the districts as management areas and created area committee
Area committee

Many large local government Local government in the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom have a system of area committees, with responsibility for services in a particular part of the area covered by the council....
s to represent them. However, the boundaries of committee areas ceased to be aligned exactly with those of management areas as a result of changes to ward boundaries in 1999. Ward boundaries changed again in 2007, and the management areas and related committees have now been abolished in favour of three new corporate management areas, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross; Inverness, Nairn and Badenoch and Strathspey; and Ross, Skye and Lochaber. The names of these areas are also names of constituencies
United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly....
, but boundaries are different.

To many people within the area using the name Highland as a noun sounds wrong. Dingwall
Dingwall

Dingwall is a town and former royal burgh in the Highland of Scotland. It has a population of 5,026. It formerly functioned as an east-coast harbor, but now lies inland....
 in Highland, for example, sounds very strange and is not idiomatic usage
Idiom

An idiom is a phrase whose meaning cannot be determined by the literal definition of the phrase itself, but refers instead to a figurative language meaning that is known only through common use....
. To refer specifically to the area covered by the council, people tend to say the Highland Council area or the Highland area or the Highland region. Otherwise they tend to use the traditional county names, such as Ross-shire. Highlands sometimes refers to the Highland council area (as in Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service
Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service

The Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory Fire Services in Scotland for northern Scotland, covering the council areas of Highland , Orkney, Shetland, and the Western Isles, and so covering a major part of the Highlands and Islands area....
). More usually, however, it refers to a somewhat larger or overlapping area. Northern
Northern Scotland

Northern is an administrative division of Scotland used for police and Fire fighting services. It consists of Highland , the Orkney Islands, the Shetland Islands and the Western Isles....
 (as in Northern Constabulary
Northern Constabulary

The Northern Constabulary is the police force responsible for Northern Scotland Scotland, covering the Council areas of Scotland of Highland , Na h-Eileanan Siar, the Orkney Isles and the Shetland Isles, which comprise most of the Highlands and Islands area....
) is also used to refer to the area covered by the Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service (which includes the island council areas of Orkney, Shetland and Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles).

The Highland Council headquarters is located in Inverness
Inverness

Inverness is a City status in the United Kingdom in northern Scotland. The city is the administrative centre for the Highland Council areas of Scotland, and it is promoted as the capital of the Scottish Highlands....
 with most previous district council offices retained as outstations.

Politics


Councillors


The Highland Council represents 22 wards, of which each elects three or four councillor
Councillor

A councillor or councilor is a member of a local government council, such as a city council. Often in the United States, the title is councilman or councilwoman....
s by the single transferable vote
Single transferable vote

The Single transferable vote is a voting system of preferential voting designed to minimize wasted votes and provide proportional representation while ensuring that votes are explicitly expressed for individual candidates rather than for party lists....
 system of election
Election

An election is a decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold formal office. This is the usual mechanism by which modern Representative democracy fills offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional government and local government....
, to produce a form of proportional representation
Proportional representation

Proportional representation , sometimes referred to as full representation, is a category of voting systems aimed at a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive ....
 in a council of 80 members.

Political representation

The most recent general election
General election

A general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are up for election. The term is usually used to refer to elections held for a nation's primary legislative body, as distinguished from by-elections and local elections....
 of the council was on 3 May 2007, and resulted in a so-called Independent Group and Scottish National Party
Scottish National Party

The Scottish National Party is a centre-left List of Scottish political parties which campaigns for Scottish independence. In the last few decades, the SNP has normally polled the second highest number of votes for a Scottish political parties in Scotland....
 (SNP) coalition administration. The SNP withdrew from the coalition in June 2008, and an Independent Group, Liberal Democrat and Labour
Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
 coalition was formed.

Although consisting largely of former independent councillors, the Independent Group functions as a party, with Councillor Sandy Park as its leader and members accepting what is effectively a party whip
Whip (politics)

Whip is a role in party-based politics whose primary purpose is to ensure control of the formal decision-making process in a parliamentary legislature....
. The process of collapse of the Sandy Park group and SNP coalition also produced an Independent Members Group consisting of councillors who are outside the Sandy Park group and outside the ruling coalition.

As of 4 July 2008, political representation is as follows:

Members of the Scottish Parliament

For elections to the Scottish Parliament
Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament is the Devolution national, Unicameralism legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood, Edinburgh area of the capital Edinburgh....
 the Highland area is within the Highlands and Islands electoral area
Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions

Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions were first used in 1999, in the 1999 Scottish Parliament election of the Scottish Parliament , created by the Scotland Act 1998....
, which elects eight first past the post constituency
Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions

Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions were first used in 1999, in the 1999 Scottish Parliament election of the Scottish Parliament , created by the Scotland Act 1998....
 Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs)
Member of the Scottish Parliament

Member of the Scottish Parliament is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament....
 and seven additional member MSPs. Three of the region's constituencies, each electing one MSP, are within the Highland area: Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the first past the post method of election....
, Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the first past the post method of election....
 and Ross, Skye and Inverness West
Ross, Skye and Inverness West (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Ross, Skye and Inverness West is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the first past the post method of election....
.

Members of Parliament

In the House of Commons
British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the British monarchy and the House of Lords ....
 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislature in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories....
 the Highland area is represented by Members of Parliament (MPs)
Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
 elected from three constituencies
United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly....
: Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (UK Parliament constituency)

Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross is a United Kingdom constituencies of the United Kingdom House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ....
; Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (UK Parliament constituency)

Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey is a United Kingdom constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
; and Ross, Skye and Lochaber
Ross, Skye and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)

Ross, Skye and Lochaber is a United Kingdom constituencies of the United Kingdom House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
. Each constituency elects one MP by the first past the post system of election.

Towns and villages in the Highland Council Area

  • Alness
    Alness

    Alness is a town in Ross and Cromarty, Highland , Scotland. The name is pronounced Al'-niss by some Ross-shire residents and Oll-ness' by others....
    , Altnaharra
    Altnaharra

    Altnaharra is a small hamlet in Sutherland in the Highland region of northern Scotland. The hamlet is on the A836 road, close to its junction with the B873 road....
    , Applecross
    Applecross

    The Applecross peninsula is a peninsula in Wester Ross, Scottish Highlands, on the west coast of Scotland. The name Applecross is at least 1300 years old and is not used locally to refer to the 19th century village with the pub and post office, lying on the small Applecross Bay, facing the Inner Sound, Scotland, on the opp...
    , Aviemore
    Aviemore

    Aviemore is a town and Tourism in Scotland resort, situated within the Cairngorms National Park in the Scottish Highlands of Scotland. It is in the Badenoch and Strathspey committee area, within the Highland council area....
    , Avoch
    Avoch

    Avoch is a harbour-village located on the Black Isle, on the Moray Firth. The village's name is pronounced "Och" .Ormond Castle 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 M...
  • Back of Keppoch
    Back of Keppoch

    Back of Keppoch is a small coastal settlement in the north west Scotland Scottish Highlands, approximately 40 miles west of Fort William, Highland near to the A830 road to Mallaig....
    , Ballachulish
    Ballachulish

    The village of Ballachulish in Lochaber, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, is centred around former slate quarries. The name Ballachulish was more correctly applied to the area now called North Ballachulish, to the north of Loch Leven , but was usurped for the quarry villages at East Laroch and West Laroch, either side of the...
    , Bettyhill
    Bettyhill

    Bettyhill is a village on the north coast of Scotland.It lies on the A836 road 32 miles west of Thurso and 12 miles from Tongue, Highland. Its principal attractions are the expanse of Torrisdale Bay, The Strathnaver Museum, , and angling on the River Naver; its now defunct fishing port was formerly called Navermouth....
    , Broadford
    Broadford, Isle of Skye

    Broadford is the second-largest town on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, lying on the left hand corner of Broadford Bay, on the A87 road between Portree and the Skye Bridge....
    , Brora
    Brora

    Brora is a village in the east of Sutherland, in the Highland area of Scotland. The village is on the A9 road road and has a Brora railway station on the Far North Line....
  • Cromarty
    Cromarty

    The Royal Burgh of Cromarty is a burgh in Ross and Cromarty, Highland , Scotland....
    , Culloden
    Culloden

    Culloden may refer to any of the following:*Culloden, Highland, a village in Scotland**The Battle of Culloden, a battle which took place there in 1746...
  • Dalwhinnie
    Dalwhinnie

    Dalwhinnie is a tiny village in the Scottish Highlands. It is a little north of Pass of Drumochter, and functions mainly as a service stop. Because the pass is often closed in winter, this is seasonal....
    , Dingwall
    Dingwall

    Dingwall is a town and former royal burgh in the Highland of Scotland. It has a population of 5,026. It formerly functioned as an east-coast harbor, but now lies inland....
    , Dornie
    Dornie

    Dornie is a small village in the western Scottish Highlands of Scotland, with a population of 360 .It is near the meeting point of Loch Duich, Loch Alsh and Loch Long ....
    , Dornoch
    Dornoch

    Dornoch is a town and seaside resort, and former Royal burgh in the Highlands of Scotland, on the north shore of the Dornoch Firth, close to where it opens into the Moray Firth to the east....
    , Drumnadrochit
    Drumnadrochit

    Drumnadrochit is a village inthe Highland Local government in Scotland Council areas of Scotland of Scotland, lying on the west shore of Loch Ness, at the head of Glenurquhart....
    , Durness
    Durness

    Durness is a remote township in the northwestern Scottish Highlandss of Scotland, lying on the Kyle of Durness. The main sources of employment in the village are Croft and tourism....
  • Fearn
    Fearn

    Fearn may refer to:* Fearn , the third letter of the Ogham alphabet, as named in Irish* The Hill of Fearn, in the Highland council area of Scotland...
    , Fort Augustus, Fortrose
    Fortrose

    Fortrose is a burgh in the Scottish Highlands, located on the Moray Firth, approximately ten kilometres north east of Inverness. The town is known for its ruined 13th century cathedral, and as the home of the Brahan Seer....
    , Fort William
  • Gairloch
    Gairloch

    Gairloch is a small village on the shores of Gair Loch on the northwest coast of Scotland. A popular tourist destination in the summer months, Gairloch boasts a golf course, a small museum, several hotels, a community centre, a leisure centre with sports facilities, a Two Lochs Radio, beaches and nearby mountains....
    , Glencoe
    Glencoe, Scotland

    Glencoe Village is the main settlement in Glen Coe, Lochaber, Scottish Highlands, Scotland. It lies at the north-west end of the glen, on the southern bank of the River Coe as it enters Loch Leven ....
    , Golspie
    Golspie

    Golspie is a coastal village in Sutherland, Scottish Highlands, Scotland. It has a population of around 1,600 people. It is located picturesquely on the shores of the Moray Firth in the shadow of Ben Bhraggie ....
  • Helmsdale
    Helmsdale

    Helmsdale is a village on the east coast of Sutherland, in the Scottish Highlands region of Scotland. Settled by the norsemen, and once the site of an impressive medieval castle, the modern village was planned in 1814 to resettle communities that had been removed from the surrounding straths as part of the highland clearances....
  • Invergarry
    Invergarry

    Invergarry is a village in the Scottish Highlands of Scotland. It is in the Great Glen, near where the River Garry flows into Loch Oich.Near the centre of the village is the junction between the A82 road and the A87 road which branches off to the west towards Skye....
    , Invergordon
    Invergordon

    Invergordon is a town and port in Easter Ross, in Ross and Cromarty, Highland , Scotland.The town is served by Invergordon railway station.A naval base in the early 20th century, evidence of which remains in the tank farm lying behind the town centre, which used to contain fuel oil and water for admiralty ships, and the Admiralty Pier, wh...
    , Inverie
    Inverie

    Inverie is the only village in Knoydart, Lochaber, Scottish Highlands, Scotland. It is linked by ferry to Mallaig, but there is no road access to the area from the rest of Scotland....
    , Invermoriston
    Invermoriston

    Invermoriston is a small village 7 miles north of Fort Augustus, Scottish Highlands, Scotland. The village is on the A82 road, at a junction with the A887 road....
    , Inverness
    Inverness

    Inverness is a City status in the United Kingdom in northern Scotland. The city is the administrative centre for the Highland Council areas of Scotland, and it is promoted as the capital of the Scottish Highlands....
  • John o' Groats
    John o' Groats

    John o' Groats is a village in the Highland Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. Once a part of the Counties of Scotland of Caithness, John o' Groats is popular with tourists because it is usually regarded as the most northerly settlement of mainland Great Britain....
  • Kingussie
    Kingussie

    Kingussie is a small town and is head of Badenoch and Strathspey, Highland , Scotland, adjacent to the A9 road , although the old route of the A9 served as the town's main street....
    , Kinlochbervie
    Kinlochbervie

    Kinlochbervie is a harbour village in the north west of Sutherland, in the Highland region of Scotland. In 2001 the population was 480.The majority of local industry is based upon the fishing industry....
    , Kinlochleven
    Kinlochleven

    Kinlochleven is a village in Lochaber, Scottish Highlands, Scotland and lies at the eastern end of Loch Leven , a sea loch cutting into the western Scottish Highlands....
    , Kyle of Lochalsh
    Kyle of Lochalsh

    Kyle of Lochalsh is a village on the northwest coast of Scotland, 63 miles west of Inverness. It is located at the entrance to Loch Alsh, opposite the village of Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye....
  • Mallaig
    Mallaig

    Mallaig is a seaport in Lochaber, on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands of Scotland. The local railway station, Mallaig railway station, is the terminus of the West Highland Line , completed in 1901, and the town is linked to Fort William, Highland by the A830 road – the "Road to the Isles"....
  • Nairn
    Nairn

    Nairn is a town and former burgh in the Highland Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. It is an ancient fishing port and market town around east of Inverness....
    , Newfield
    Newfield, Highland

    Newfield is a small village in Ross-shire, Highland , Scotland....
    , Newtonmore
    Newtonmore

    Newtonmore in is a village in the Highland council area of Scotland. It has a population of about 1000. The village is only a few miles from a location that is claimed to be the exact geographical centre of Scotland....
    , North Ballachulish
  • Plockton
    Plockton

    Plockton is a village in the Scottish Highlands of Scotland with a population of 378 .It is a picturesque settlement on the shores of Loch Carron....
    , Portmahomack
    Portmahomack

    Portmahomack is a small fishing village in Easter Ross, Scotland. Situated east of Tain on the northern coast of the Tarbat Peninsula, Portmahomack has long been known to be on the site of early settlements....
    , Portree
    Portree

    Portree Portree has a harbour, fringed by cliffs, with a pier designed by Thomas Telford.Attractions in the town include the Aros Centre which celebrate the island's Gaels heritage....
  • Rosemarkie
    Rosemarkie

    Rosemarkie is a village on the south coast of the Black Isle peninsula in northern Scotland, a quarter of a mile east of the town of Fortrose....
  • South Ballachulish, Strathpeffer
    Strathpeffer

    Strathpeffer is a village and former spa town in Ross and Cromarty, Highland , Scotland, 5 miles west of Dingwall, with a population of 1,469....
  • Tain, Thurso
    Thurso

    Thurso is a town and former burgh on the north coast of the Highland Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. Historically, the town is one of two burghs within the Counties of Scotland of Caithness....
    , Tobermory, Tongue
    Tongue, Highland

    Tongue is a coastal village in northwest Highland , Scotland The area was an historic crossroad for Gaels, Picts and Vikings, and it was the last group who named it....
    , Torridon
    Torridon

    Torridon is a small village in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. However the name is also applied to the area surrounding the village, particularly the Torridon Hills, mountains to the north of Glen Torridon....
  • Ullapool
    Ullapool

    Ullapool is a small town of around 1,300 inhabitants in Ross and Cromarty, Highland , Scotland. Despite its small size, it is the largest settlement for many miles around, and is a major tourist destination of Scotland....
  • Wick


Places of interest in the Highland Council Area

  • Cairngorms National Park
    Cairngorms National Park

    The Cairngorms National Park is a national park in north east Scotland, established in 2003. It was the second of National parks of Scotland established by the Scottish Parliament, after Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, set up in 2002....
  • Castle Tioram
    Castle Tioram

    Castle Tioram is a Ruin that sits on the tidal island Eilean Tioram in Loch Moidart, Lochaber, Highland , Scotland. It is located west of Acharacle, approximately 80 kilometres from Fort William, Highland....
  • Cawdor Castle
    Cawdor Castle

    Cawdor Castle is a tower house set amid magnificent gardens in the parish of Cawdor, approximately 10 miles east of Inverness and 5 miles southwest of Nairn in Scotland, United Kingdom....
  • 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....
  • Culloden Battlefield
    Battle of Culloden

    The Battle of Culloden was the final clash between the French-supported Jacobitism and the House of Hanover British Government in the 1745 Jacobite Rising#The 'Forty-Five'....
  • Fort George
  • Glencoe
    Glencoe, Scotland

    Glencoe Village is the main settlement in Glen Coe, Lochaber, Scottish Highlands, Scotland. It lies at the north-west end of the glen, on the southern bank of the River Coe as it enters Loch Leven ....
  • Glenfinnan
    Glenfinnan

    Glenfinnan is a village in Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands of Scotland. It is located at the northern end of Loch Shiel, at the foot of Glen Finnan....
  • Glen Orchy
    Glen Orchy

    Glen Orchy is a long glen in Argyll and Bute in Scotland. It runs south-westerly from the Bridge of Orchy to Inverlochy following the River Orchy....
  • Glen Shiel
    Glen Shiel

    Glen Shiel is a glen in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland.The glen runs approximately 9 miles from north-west to south-east, from sea level at the village of Shiel Bridge and Loch Duich to the Cluanie Inn at the western end of Loch Cluanie and the start of Glenmoriston....
  • Glen Spean
  • Highland Folk Museum
    Highland Folk Museum

    The in Kingussie and Newtonmore , Scotland has many old fascinating buildings and materials representing the history of the Scottish Highlands of Scotland....
  • Highland Wildlife Park
    Highland Wildlife Park

    The Highland Wildlife Park is a safari park and zoo near Kingussie, Highland , Scotland. The park is in the Cairngorms National Park.The Highland Wildlife Park was opened in 1972 and has been run by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland since 1986....
  • Loch Linnhe
    Loch Linnhe

    Loch Linnhe is a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland.Loch Linnhe is long, and an average of wide. It opens onto the Firth of Lorne at its south-western end, by Loch Leven ....
  • Loch Lochy
    Loch Lochy

    Loch Lochy is a large freshwater loch in Lochaber, Highland , Scotland. With a mean depth of 70 m, it is the third deepest loch of Scotland.Located 16 kilometers southwest of Loch Ness along the Glen Albyn, the loch is over 15 kilometers long with an average width of about 1 kilometer....
  • Loch Ness
    Loch Ness

    Loch Ness is a large, deep, freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands extending for approximately 37 km southwest of Inverness. Its surface is 15.8 metres above sea level....
  • Rannoch Moor
    Rannoch Moor

    Rannoch Moor is a large expanse of around 50 square miles of boggy moorland to the west of Loch Rannoch, in Perth and Kinross and Lochaber, Scottish Highlands, partly northern Argyll and Bute, Scotland....
  • Skibo Castle
    Skibo Castle

    Skibo Castle is located to the west of Dornoch in Sutherland, Highland , Scotland, UK overlooking the Dornoch Firth. Although the castle dates back to the 12th century, the present structure is largely of the 19th century, and early 20th century, when it was the home of industrialist Andrew Carnegie....
  • Tor Castle
  • Urquhart Castle
    Urquhart Castle

    Urquhart Castle sits beside Loch Ness in Scotland along the A82 road, between Fort William, Highland and Inverness. It is close to the village of Drumnadrochit....
  • West Highland Way
    West Highland Way

    The West Highland Way is a linear Long-distance trail in Scotland, with the official status of Long Distance Routes. It is 153 kilometres long, running from Milngavie north of Glasgow to Fort William, Highland in the Scottish Highlands, with an element of hill walking in the route....
  • Old Wick Castle


See also

  • 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....


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See also

  • List of places in Highland
    List of places in Highland

    This article is a list of any town, village, hamlet and Human settlement, in the Highland council area in Scotland. The area encompassed by the Highland council is a slightly different area to that encompassed by the Scottish Highlands....
  • List of places in Argyll and Bute
    List of places in Argyll and Bute

    This List of places in Argyll and Bute is a list of links for any town, village, hamlet, castle, golf course, historic house, lighthouse, nature reserve, reservoir, river, canal, and other place of interest in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK....
  • List of places in Perth and Kinross
    List of places in Perth and Kinross

    This List of places in Perth and Kinross is a list of links for any town, village, hamlet, castle, golf course, historic house, nature reserve, reservoir, river, canal, and other place of interest in Perth and Kinross, Scotland....
  • List of places in Moray
    List of places in Moray

    This List of places in Moray is a list of links for any town, village, hamlet, castle, golf course, historic house, lighthouse, nature reserve, reservoir, river, lake, canal, and other place of interest in Moray....
  • List of places in the Western Isles
    List of places in the Western Isles

    Please note, that "Western Isles" can traditionally refer to the Hebrides, but here refers to the Outer Hebrides aloneThis List of places in the Western Isles is a list of links for any town, village, hamlet, island, port, river, harbour, historic house, nature reserve and other place of interest in the Western Isles of Scotland, UK....