North Highlands Historic Sites

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Balnakeil Craft Village

  • North Highlands
  • Attraction
  • £

A disused army camp-now home to craftsmen happy to explain and demonstrate their various crafts.

Photo - Balnakeil Craft Village
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Ferrycroft Countryside Centre

  • North Highlands
  • Family
  • £

Interactive displays, exhibitions, a video on native woodlands, audio-visual journey into the past to discover how people lived in the area hundreds and thousands of years ago.

Photo - Ferrycroft Countryside Centre
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Assynt Visitor Centre

  • North Highlands
  • Attraction
  • £

The Visitor Centre includes Visit Scotland Tourist Information Centre, displays about the wildlife, history, geology and cultural heritage of Assynt.

Photo - Assynt Visitor Centre
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Ness Historical Society

  • North Highlands
  • Historic
  • £

The highly successful Comunn Eachdraidh (historical society)movement began in 1977 when a group of local history enthusiasts from north Lewis met informally to discuss how best to

Photo - Ness Historical Society
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Loch a\'Mhuilinn

  • North Highlands
  • Nature Site
  • £

The most northern remnant of native oak woodland in Britain survives on this reserve. The stunting effects of westerly gales are clearly visible with some of the oaks reduced to a

Photo - Loch a\'Mhuilinn
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Smoo Cave

  • Caithness
  • Nature Site
  • £

Smoo cave is a great tourist attraction for people visiting the north-west coast, and is well worth a visit

Photo - Smoo Cave
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The Castle & Gardens of Mey

  • Caithness
  • Historic
  • £

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother bought and saved Scotland\'s most northerly castle and created the lovely gardens

Photo - The Castle & Gardens of Mey
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Falls of Shin

  • East Sutherland
  • Nature Site
  • £

A lovely waterfall easily accessed for watching salmon leaping upstream to their spawning grounds.

Photo - Falls of Shin
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Old Man of Hoy and RSPB Reserve

  • Orkney
  • Nature Site
  • £

The Old Man of Hoy is a spectacular rock stack that is passed by the Stromness car ferry on its approach in to Orkney

Photo - Old Man of Hoy and RSPB Reserve
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Dornoch Cathedral

  • East Sutherland
  • Historic
  • £

Dornoch Cathedral is an historic and active 13th Century parish church situated in the Royal Burgh of Dornoch, in the Scottish Highlands.

Photo - Dornoch Cathedral
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