Kinloss

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Kinloss
Scottish Gaelic Cinn Lois
Kinloss Abbey ruins
Kinloss Abbey ruins
Coordinates 57 ° 38 ′  N , 3 ° 34 ′  W Coordinates: 57 ° 38 ′  N , 3 ° 34 ′  W
Kinloss (Scotland)
Kinloss
Kinloss
Residents 1052 (2011 census)
administration
Post town FORRES
ZIP code section IV36
prefix 01309
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Moray
British Parliament Moray
Scottish Parliament Moray

Kinloss ( Gaelic : Cinn Lois ) is a village in the Scottish council area of Moray . It is located in the northeast of the Council Area at the confluence of Kinloss Burns in Findhorn Bay , a side bay of the Moray Firth . Forres is five kilometers southwest , while Elgin is 15 kilometers east.

history

In 1150 the Scottish King David I donated the Cistercian monastery Kinloss Abbey, which is still in ruins today . In the course of the secularization of ecclesiastical goods, the lands were added to the Scottish crown possession in 1587. In 1601, Edward Bruce received a royal charter to establish a Kinloss baronate . Four years later he was raised to Lord Kinloss . In 1634 Kinloss was sold to the Brodie clan . Stone material from the monastery was removed and used for the construction of Inverness Castle , among others .

In 1809 the nearby mansion Grange Hall was completed. In 1939, the RAF Kinloss military airfield was built, the facilities of which are now operated as Kinloss Barracks .

traffic

The A96 from Aberdeen to Inverness runs around one kilometer south . The A940 leading to Dava is also accessible in nearby Forres .

In 1858 Kinloss got its own station along the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway . In May 1965 the passenger and in November of the following year also the goods operation was stopped. The Inverness Airport is located around 30 kilometers west.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Gaelic expressions
  2. ↑ a b c Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  3. ↑ Kinloss in: FH Groome (ed.): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1882–1885.
  4. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  5. ↑ Entry on Kinloss Train Station  in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database

Web links

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