Glenfinnan (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Fhionnain [klan̪ˠˈʝũn̪ˠɛɲ]) is a hamlet in Lochaber area of the Highlands of Scotland. In 1745 the Jacobite rising...
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The Glenfinnan Viaduct is a railway viaduct on the West Highland Line in Glenfinnan, Inverness-shire, Scotland, built from 1897 to 1901. Located at the...
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The Glenfinnan Monument is a Category A listed monument in Glenfinnan, Lochaber, erected in 1814 and dedicated to the Scottish Highlanders who fought...
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Glenfinnan railway station is a railway station serving the village of Glenfinnan in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is on the West Highland...
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beauty including alongside Loch Eil, Glenfinnan Viaduct and Arisaig. Trains cross with regular service trains at Glenfinnan station. The route is also the same...
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Bridge. The section between Fort William and Mallaig passes over the Glenfinnan Viaduct, through Arisaig with its views of the Small Isles of Rùm, Eigg...
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Glen Coe just to the south, Ben Nevis and Aonach Mòr to the east, and Glenfinnan to the west. It is a centre for hillwalking and climbing due to its proximity...
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suffered from overgrazing. The view of the loch looking south from the Glenfinnan monument, showing wooded hillsides with bare summits rising steeply from...
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this resulted in the two becoming business partners to form Glenfinnan Records (Glenfinnan is the place name of where the Jacobite rising of 1745 began)...
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is a mountain in the Northwest Highlands, Scotland. It lies north of Glenfinnan in Lochaber. One of a pair of neighbouring Munros (the other being Sgurr...
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bears the image of Sir Walter Scott on the obverse and a vignette of the Glenfinnan Viaduct on the reverse. Paper currency was introduced in Scotland immediately...
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Loch Ness Supergroup (section Glenfinnan Group)
dominantly of psammite with local developments of quartzite, lies above the Glenfinnan Group in what is interpreted to be a normal stratigraphic contact. The...
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and knowledge to enslave humanity. Connor MacLeod is born in 1518 in Glenfinnan, Scotland near the shores of Loch Shiel. In 1536, he enters his first...
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Carrbridge, Corrour, Crieff, Dalwhinnie, Dunkeld, Fort Augustus, Fort William, Glenfinnan, Grantown-on-Spey, Invergarry, Isle of Canna, Isle of Eigg, Isle of Rum...
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Kinglas Glen Lyon Glen Orchy Glenshee Ski Centre Glen Shiel Glen Spean Glenfinnan (and its railway station and viaduct) Grampian Mountains Hebrides Highland...
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three units were proposed; the Morar, Glenfinnan and Loch Eil divisions. The contact at the base of the Glenfinnan division against the Morar division was...
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As of June 2019[update], this is the list of the 282 Munros, recognised by the Scottish Mountaineering Club ("SMC") and The Munro Society. The Munros are...
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in 1715 and 1719. Charles launched the rebellion on 19 August 1745 at Glenfinnan in the Scottish Highlands, capturing Edinburgh and winning the Battle...
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beaches line the road. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 40 Mallaig & Glenfinnan (Loch Shiel) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2009. ISBN 9780319231647. "Ordnance...
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Edinburgh Stirling Bridge, 1297 Bannockburn 1314 Killiecrankie, 1689 Glenfinnan, (Raising of Standard in 1745, see Jacobitism) Culloden, 1746 History...
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The road passes through several small settlements, including Corpach, Glenfinnan and Arisaig and bypasses the village of Morar. It also follows the shorelines...
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The Glenfinnan Viaduct in Scotland (which the Hogwarts Express passes en route to Hogwarts), features in four films in the series, including the Dementor...
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his role. In A.D. 1555, Connor MacLeod returns to his former home in Glenfinnan, Scotland, to save his mother from village priest Jacob Kell. Kell executes...
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Scotland, known as Finnan Glen Finnan, a valley in the Highlands of Scotland Glenfinnan, a settlement at the bottom of the glen River Finnan, which flows down...
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Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod, a 16th-century immortal born in Glenfinnan, Scotland near the shores of Loch Shiel. Under the alias Russell Nash...
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Inverness-shire PH PH35 Invergarry Inverness-shire PH PH36 Acharacle Argyll PH PH37 Glenfinnan Inverness-shire PH PH38 Lochailort Inverness-shire PH PH39 Arisaig Inverness-shire...
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Kongen" - "God and the King". English: Anders Lassen's bench donated at the Glenfinnan monument in Scotland Greek Sacred Band memorial badge awarded to Lassen...
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concrete and labour-saving machinery. McAlpine oversaw the construction of Glenfinnan Viaduct. Robert McAlpine was married twice. On 12 June 1868, he married...
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mountain in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. It is located north of Glenfinnan in Lochaber. Taking the form of a long ridge, the climb is steep and pathless...
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to return it to the grave of his first love, Debra Campbell. Once in Glenfinnan, he is greeted with hostility by Rachel MacLeod, the local innkeeper,...
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