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Glenmorangie Distillery
A famed Highland single malt distillery on the Dornoch Firth near Tain, offering tours and tastings on the NC500.
36 km · about 40 min drive
Scotland, United Kingdom · Europe
Burghead sits on the route: 15 minutes from Kinloss, 41km from Dunrobin Castle.
Burghead is a town located in Scotland, United Kingdom. With a population of 1,840, it is an important destination in Europe.
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Burghead (Scots: Burgheid or The Broch, Scottish Gaelic: Am Broch) is a small town in Moray, Scotland, about 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Elgin. The town is mainly built on a peninsula that projects north-westward into the Moray Firth, surrounding it by water on three sides. People from Burghead are calledRead more
Brochers.
The present town was built between 1805 and 1809, destroying in the process more than half of the site of an important Pictish fort. General Roy's map shows the defences as they existed in the 18th century although he wrongly attributed them to the Romans. The fort was probably a major Pictish centre and was where carved slabs depicting bulls, known as the Burghead Bulls, were found. A chambered well of some considerable antiquity was discovered in 1809 and walls and a roof were later added to help preserve it. Each year on 11 January a fire festival known as the Burning of the Clavie takes place; it is thought that the festival dates back to the 17th century, although it could easily predate this by several centuries. Burghead is often known by locals as The Broch, a nickname also applied to Fraserburgh in nearby Aberdeenshire.
A recent dig just beyond the boundary of Burghead at Clarkly Hill has uncovered Iron Age circular stone houses and Pictish building foundations, as well as silver and bronze Roman coins and a gold finger ring possibly from the Baltic region. Significant evidence of large scale Iron smelting has also been found, providing evidence that iron was probably being traded from this site. The National Museum of Scotland has carried out significant exploration which leads it to believe this is a significant site of interest.
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Burghead is located in Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe. The coordinates are 57.7011 latitude, -3.4899 longitude.
Burghead has a population of approximately 1,840 people, making it a town in United Kingdom.
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A famed Highland single malt distillery on the Dornoch Firth near Tain, offering tours and tastings on the NC500.
36 km · about 40 min drive
photogenic
Sea arch shaped like the tip of a fiddle bow, a short walk from the village of Portknockie on the Moray coast. At dawn the quartzite arch glows pink and doubles in the still water; dolphins pass close inshore.
38 km · about 45 min drive
scenic viewpoint
One of the best places in Europe to spot bottlenose dolphins from the shore, a spit on the Black Isle near Inverness.
39 km · about 45 min drive
castle
A fairytale French-château-style castle with formal gardens and falconry displays on the NC500's east coast.
41 km · about 50 min drive
ancient ruins
A serene cluster of 4,000-year-old burial cairns and standing stones near Inverness, beloved by Outlander fans.
43 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
The moor where the 1746 Jacobite rising was crushed, now a moving memorial and visitor centre near Inverness.
44 km · about 50 min drive
historic highway
Notorious high crossing of the eastern Cairngorms on the 18th-century military road between Cockbridge and Tomintoul, climbing to 637m with roller-coaster gradients: often the first UK road closed by snow.
58 km · about 65 min drive
May to September
Far northern latitude: short daylight hours outside summer make long drives harder.
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