Golspie

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Golspie
Scottish Gaelic Goillspidh
City view of Golspie
City view of Golspie
Coordinates 57 ° 59 ′  N , 3 ° 59 ′  W Coordinates: 57 ° 59 ′  N , 3 ° 59 ′  W
Golspie (Scotland)
Golspie
Golspie
Residents 1407 2011 census
administration
Post town GOLSPIE
ZIP code section Week 10
prefix 01408
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Highland
British Parliament Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Scottish Parliament Caithness, Sutherland and Ross

Golspie ( Scottish Gaelic Goillspidh ) is a village in the Scottish Council Area Highland . It is located in the traditional county of Sutherland about 30 km northeast of Invergordon and 65 km southwest of Wick on the north coast of the Moray Firth . In 2011 Golspie had 1,407 inhabitants. Near Golspie is Dunrobin Castle , the seat of the Duke of Sutherland , and the Iron Age Broch Carn Liath .

history

Golspie developed as a fishing village in the 18th century. The connection to the railway network and the construction of the pier made Golspie attractive for tourists who wanted to visit the nearby Dunrobin Castle, for example. At the end of the 19th century, Golspie was one of the largest villages in northern Scotland.

Dunrobin Park is located in an old quarry in Dunrobin Woods. It was excavated in 1880 and contained the crouched skeleton of a woman, a complete beaker, 118 slate beads ; 18 pebbles and three flints . The finds are in the Dunrobin Castle Museum.

The Golspie Stone is a Pictish symbol stone .

traffic

With the A9 , the most important trunk road in the Scottish Highlands runs directly through Golspie. The village has its own train station, which is regularly served by the Far North Line on its route from Inverness to Wick and Thurso . Ferries once operated from the Golspie jetty.

literature

  • Robert Gourlay, Sutherland - a historical guide , Birlinn, Edinburgh, 1996 ISBN 1-874744-44-0 p. 33

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Gaelic expressions
  2. ↑ 2011 census
  3. ↑ a b c Golspie. Highland. In: David Munro, Bruce Gittings: Scotland. An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscapes. Collins et al., Glasgow 2006, ISBN 0-00-472466-6 .
  4. ↑ Golspie. In: Francis H. Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Volume 3: (Edr - Har). Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh et al. 1885, p. 199.

  • Jetty

  • Golspie Railway Station

  • Church in Golspie

Web links

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