Balintore, Easter Ross

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Balintore
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The Mermaid of the North on the coast at Balintore
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Balintore
Location within the Highland council area
Population1,000 (2022) [1]
OS grid reference NH863757
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Country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Tain
Postcode district IV20 1
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57°45′25″N3°54′43″W / 57.75701°N 3.91195°W / 57.75701; -3.91195

Balintore (from the Scottish Gaelic : Baile an Todhair meaning "The Bleaching Town") [2] is a village near Tain in Easter Ross, Scotland. It is one of three villages on this northern stretch of the Moray Firth coastline: Hilton, Balintore, and Shandwick are known collectively as the Seaboard Villages.

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An earlier name for Balintore was Port an Ab ('Abbot's Port'), after Fearn Abbey, the local landowner. Employment was formerly based on fishing. A road was built from Hill of Fearn in 1819, after which fish were shipped from the village, and Balintore Harbour was built in 1890–96. The three villages were connected by a road in the first decade of the 20th century; Balintore has a post office and several shops. [2] The Seaboard Village Hall, now the Seaboard Centre, is in Balintore and serves as a community centre for the three villages. [3] The original building was erected in 1958 as a memorial to local people killed in the two World Wars, [4] and was replaced in 2002. [5]

John Ross, a missionary who translated the Bible into Korean, is commemorated by a 2007 monument, part of the Seaboard Sculpture Trail, [6] and by the John Ross Visitor Centre, which opened in 2022 in a former church between Balintore and Hilton. [7] [8]

The Mermaid of the North sculpture, by Steve Hayward of Hilton, was placed in 2007 on Clach Dubh ('Black Rock') on the shore at Balintore. After the original wood and resin sculpture was damaged in a 2012 storm, it was replaced in cast bronze in 2014. It also forms part of the Seaboard Sculpture Trail. [9] [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  2. 1 2 Jessie Mcdonald and Anne Gordon, Down to the Sea: An Account of Life in the Fishing Villages of Hilton, Balintore and Shandwick, 2nd ed., 1978, OCLC   633713797, online at Ross And Cromarty Heritage Society, archived from the original on 15 October 2011.
  3. ↑ Seaboard Centre.
  4. ↑ "The Seaboard Memorial Hall", Seaboard History, archived from the original on 16 April 2014.
  5. ↑ "History of the Seaboard Centre", Seaboard Centre, archived from the original on 4 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "Reverend John Ross (1842–1914)", Art UK, retrieved 5 November 2023.
  7. ↑ "John Ross Visitor Centre", Easter Ross Peninsula, retrieved 5 November 2023.
  8. ↑ Hector MacKenzie, "Opening of new John Ross Visitor Centre hailed a major boost for Seaboard villages as Easter Ross missionary's historic links with South Korea strengthened", Ross-shire Journal, 21 May 2022.
  9. ↑ "About Mermaid of the North", Easter Ross Peninsula, retrieved 5 November 2023.
  10. ↑ "Mermaid of the North could be joined by merman", BBC News, 2 August 2023.


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