Achateny
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Location within the Lochaber area | |
OS grid reference | NM520700 |
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Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Postcode district | PH36 4 |
Police | Scotland |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
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Achateny (Scottish Gaelic : Ach/Achadh an Teine) is a hamlet in Argyll on Ardnamurchan in the Scottish Highlands. It is in the Scottish council area of the Highland, near Branault, along a country lane off the B8007 road several hundred metres from the coast. [1] To the east lies the village of Kilmory.
Trees in the area include typical highland birch wood, oaks and rowans and a damp rocky and mossy substrate supporting ferns. Shell sand is also present Achateny with sand dunes. The low-lying land to the west of Achateny is bog. [2] The hamlet contains nothing more than a few scattered dwellings including a white cottage named "Caalmojo".
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Arnisdale is a hamlet in the historic county of Inverness-shire in the local authority area of Highlands of Scotland. It lies on the north shore of Loch Hourn, around 10 miles down a single-track road from Glenelg. It has a permanent population of around 30 and several holiday cottages. At the end of the village is a large white-painted hunting lodge called Arnisdale House, built by architects Robert John Macbeth & Alexander Ross in 1898-1916. The house was built for Valentine Fleming of the banking family, who was killed in action in World War I, a year after the house was completed.
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