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The Highlands and Islands is an area of Scotland broadly covering the Scottish Highlands, plus Orkney, Shetland, and the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles). The Highlands and Islands are sometimes defined as the area to which the Crofters' Act of 1886 applied. This area consisted of eight counties of Scotland: Argyll; Caithness; Inverness; Nairn ...
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Highland Estates — country estates in the Scottish Highlands region of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Pages in category "Highland Estates" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
Scotland 57°22′51″N 4°19′59″W / 57.380806°N 4.333099°W / 57.380806; -4. Dores ( Scottish Gaelic : Duras ) is a village located on the east shore of Loch Ness , 10 km south west of the city of Inverness , in the Highland council area of Scotland . [ 1 ]
In 2009, the Moray Estate submitted designs to planning authorities for a new community of more than 10,000 residents near the old hamlet [1] of Tornagrain. [2] Planning permission was granted for the building of 5,000 homes in September 2012. [3] Developers claim Tornagrain is the first new town to be built in Scotland for more than 50 years. [4]
Scotland 57°25′43″N 4°16′57″W / 57.428642°N 4.2825255°W / 57.428642; -4.2825255 Scaniport ( Scottish Gaelic : Sganaphort ) is a small settlement located on the B862, roughly between Inverness to the north and Dores to the south, in the Highland council area of Scotland .
Inverness has experienced rapid economic growth in the 21st century - between 1998 and 2008, Inverness and the rest of the central Highlands showed the largest growth of average economic productivity per person in Scotland and the second-greatest growth in the United Kingdom as a whole, with an increase of 86%. [35]
Crown (from the Scottish Gaelic: Crùn) is an area situated beside the city centre of Inverness, the capital city of the Scottish Highlands. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In general, the area's housing dates back to the Victorian or Edwardian era.