Aviemore
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Aviemore Scottish Gaelic An Aghaidh Mhór |
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| Coordinates | 57 ° 12 ′ N , 3 ° 50 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 3147 2011 census | ||
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| Post town | AVIEMORE | ||
| ZIP code section | PH22 | ||
| prefix | 01479 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | Highland | ||
| British Parliament | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch | ||
Aviemore ( Scottish Gaelic An Aghaidh Mhór ) is a town on the Spey and a tourist center in the Cairngorms National Park in the Scottish Highlands with 3147 inhabitants.
history
tourism
The city is known for skiing, hiking in the Cairngorm Mountains and the reindeer herd grazing in Glenmore Forest Park on the slopes of Meall a 'Bhuachaille - the only wild reindeer in Great Britain .
Aviemore was the first ski center to be established in Scotland. The focus on tourism as the driving economic force of the place was only established in the 1960s.
The brothers Alain and Noel Baxter come from the village, who took part in the Winter Olympics several times and are among the most successful British ski racers of the World Cup era. Aviemore, with its winter sports scene, is known as the place with the highest density of Olympic athletes in the whole of the United Kingdom.
There is a tourist center in the city center, as well as several supermarkets such as Aldi .
traffic
The A9 ( Inverness - Perth ) and the two-hourly Highland Main Line railway run through Aviemore , mostly operated by ScotRail between Perth and Inverness, which connects Edinburgh and Glasgow with Inverness. Once a day there are connections with the night train Caledonian Sleeper and an intercity train from London North Eastern Railway to Inverness and London .
The station is also the starting point for the Strathspey Railway , a museum railway to Broomhill.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Information from the Scottish Parliament
- ↑ 2011 census
- ^ Doug Gillon: Last chance for Noel Baxter. In: Herald Sport , February 20, 2010 edition. Online , accessed January 6, 2019.