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Kyle of Lochalsh

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Geography
History
Transport
In popular culture
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References
External links

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Kyle of Lochalsh (from the Gaelic Caol Loch Aillse, "strait of the foaming loch") is a village in the historic county of Ross-shire on the northwest coast of Scotland, 63 miles (100 km) west of Inverness. It is located on the Lochalsh peninsula, at the entrance to Loch Alsh, opposite the village of Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye. A ferry used to connect the two villages until it was replaced by the Skye Bridge, about a mile (2 km) to the west, in 1995.

Geography

The village is the transport and shopping centre for the area as well as having a harbour and marina with pontoons for maritime visitors. The surrounding scenery and wildlife are regarded as attractions of the village, as is the slow pace of life. Crofting as well as more recent crofting pursuits like salmon farming are some of the activities taking place in Kyle of Lochalsh.

A land-based control centre of the Royal Naval BUTEC submarine range is based in Kyle of Lochalsh.^[2]

Kyle of Lochalsh lies almost precisely {{convert|500|mi}} due north of Land's End in Cornwall.

History

A public hall in the centre of the town was completed in 1932.^[3]

Transport

Kyle of Lochalsh railway station is connected to Inverness by the Kyle of Lochalsh railway line, built in 1897 to improve public transport to the north-west of Scotland. The line ends on the water's edge, near where the ferry connection used to run.

In popular culture

In 1980, the BBC did a series of documentaries, entitled "Great Railway Journeys of the World". The Kyle of Lochalsh appeared in an episode entitled "Confessions of a Trainspotter", presented by Michael Palin. In the segment, Palin travelled by various trains from London to Kyle of Lochalsh. His humour was evident throughout the documentary. Upon reaching the Kyle of Lochalsh, he purchased a large piece of railway memorabilia—the Kyle of Lochalsh railway platform sign. The ending credits showed Palin taking the oversized sign with him back to London, which he then hung on his garden wall at home.
Along with nearby town Plockton, the town became the backdrop to the BBC drama series "Hamish MacBeth".
Kyle of Lochalsh was visited by the characters in Mark Chadbourn's trilogy, Age of Misrule.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://wwwold.highland.gov.uk/plintra/iandr/cen/pop_towns.htm|title=Census 2001|work=Population figures|accessdate=17 August 2005|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://archive.is/20120527041817/http://wwwold.highland.gov.uk/plintra/iandr/cen/pop_towns.htm|archivedate=27 May 2012|df=dmy-all}}
2. ^"British Underwater Test and Evaluation Centre (BUTEC)" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101028094832/http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst10048.html |date=28 October 2010 }} Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 20 December 2008.
3. ^{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=b1VRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JjQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1864%2C4783434 |title=New Public Hall for Kyle|work=The Glasgow Herald |date=2 April 1932 |page=7 |accessdate=12 November 2017}}

External links

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLN4fKc5v7k Video footage of the town's station and branchline in 1970]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wDF6-iXJ0g Kyle of Lochalsh Station in 2018]

3 : Populated places in Lochalsh|Ross and Cromarty|Ports and harbours of Scotland

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