Tor Castle is a ruined castle, about 3 miles (5 kilometres) north east of Fort William, Highland, Scotland, west of the River Lochy and east of the Caledonian...
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Look up tor, Tor, or TOR in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tor, TOR or ToR may refer to: Toronto, Canada Toronto Raptors Tor, Pallars, a village in Spain...
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Clan Cameron (section Castles)
appointed a Knight of the Thistle in 1973. Tor Castle: Ewen Cameron, XIII Chief of Camerons, rebuilt "Tor Castle" in the early 15th century. It was abandoned...
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Achnacarry (redirect from Achnacarry Castle)
enlarged the highly disputed Tor Castle (said to have been on Clan Mackintosh lands) in the early 16th century. Tor Castle would remain the seat of the...
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Chattan possessed the lands of Glen Loy and Loch Arkaig. It was here that Tor Castle became the clan chief's seat. Not much is certain about the history of...
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Summersberg, Gufidaun Castle Tarantsberg Castle Taufers, Sand in Taufers Tirol Castle, Tirol Castle Thurn, San Martin de Tor Castle Thurnstein, Tirol Trauttmansdorff...
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A tor, which is also known by geomorphologists as either a castle koppie or kopje, is a large, free-standing rock outcrop that rises abruptly from the...
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at Alport Castles, Longdendale, Glossop and Canyards Hills, Sheffield. Indeed, three larger landslides occur on the north side of Mam Tor, one of them...
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Coire a' Chàirn Stac Polly Strathspey Railway Sutherland Tor Castle Torridon Hills Urquhart Castle West Highland Line (scenic railway) West Highland Way...
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was founded at San Martin de Tor for the promotion of the Ladin culture. The Museum Ladin opened in 2001 at nearby Tor Castle. The territory occupies approximately...
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Clan Mackintosh (section Castles)
and Loch Arkaig. Angus and Eva lived on the lands of Clan Chattan at Tor Castle but they later withdrew to Rothiemurchus. After this the Clan Chattan...
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trees) just outside the entrance to Loch Eil. They moved from there to Tor Castle in the 17th century and later to Achnacarry. The island has now become...
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Fort William; the winner was 21-year-old Hugh Kennedy, a gamekeeper at Tor Castle, who finished (coincidentally with Swan's original run) in 2 hours 41 minutes...
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This is a list of castles in the Highland council area of Scotland. Castles in Scotland List of castles in Scotland List of listed buildings in Highland...
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Seat Former Seats Sir Henry Reid Ellon Castle Mr Donald Cameron Achnacarry Castle Fassiefern House and Tor Castle Lady Antonia Dalrymple Newhailes House...
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third part of vert and the fourth of sable. The tower is a reference to Tor Castle and resumes the insignia of a noble family; the cross over the mountains...
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Glastonbury Tor is a tor near Glastonbury in the English county of Somerset, topped by the roofless St Michael's Tower, a Grade I listed building. The...
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a kinsman of his friend Macbeth. His home is reputed to have been at Tor Castle above the River Lochy, near Seangan. "Lochaber No More" is a traditional...
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list of castles in Moray. Castles in Scotland List of castles in Scotland List of listed buildings in Moray Coventry, Martin (2001) The Castles of Scotland...
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their bodies mutilated and displayed as warning. Previously based at Tor Castle, Lochiel built a new seat at Achnacarry in 1655 in order to keep his men...
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Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first-person shooter video game developed by Gray Matter Studios and published by Activision. It was released on November...
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Schist tors in Central Otago Ignimbrite tors west of Rotorua Tors of the Central Pyrinees. Castle koppies of Traba Massif, Galicia. Dartmoor National Park...
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Fort William; the winner was 21-year-old Hugh Kennedy, a gamekeeper at Tor Castle, who finished (coincidentally with Swan's original run) in 2 hours 41 minutes...
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Beardown Tors SX602774 Bee Tor SX708844 Bel Tor SX696730 Bell Tor SX730779 Bellever Tor SX645764 Belstone Tors SX614921 Bench Tor or Benjy Tor SX691718...
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and scheduled monument. Dunster Castle was positioned on a steep, 200-foot-high (60 m) hill, sometimes called the Tor, overlooking the village of Dunster...
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December 2020. Fraser-Mackintosh, Charles (1890). "Sir Lachlan Mackintosh of Tor Castle". Chiefly Connected with Inverness and the Highlands, from 1616 to 1815...
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49°27′28″N 11°04′33″E / 49.45778°N 11.07583°E / 49.45778; 11.07583 Nuremberg Castle (German: Nürnberger Burg) is a group of medieval fortified buildings on...
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only son was charged with murder. However, on her way to see Ewen at Tor Castle to beg for her son's life, Gormshuil drowned. She was said to have fallen...
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Peveril Castle (also Castleton Castle or Peak Castle) is a ruined 11th-century castle overlooking the village of Castleton in the English county of Derbyshire...
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December 2020. Fraser-Mackintosh, Charles (1890). "Sir Lachlan Mackintosh of Tor Castle". Chiefly Connected with Inverness and the Highlands, from 1616 to 1815...
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