Duncraig Castle - Geograph
Duncraig may refer to: *Duncraig Castle in Scotland ** Duncraig railway station, near this castle * Duncraig, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia **Duncraig Senior High School Duncraig Senior High School is an independent public co-educational high day school, located in the suburb of Duncraig, north of Perth, Western Australia. The current principal is Peter Lillywhite. History The school opened in 1979 w ...

Duncraig Castle
Duncraig Castle is a mansion in Lochalsh, in the west of the Scottish Highlands. A category-C listed building, it is situated in the Highland council area, east of the village of Plockton on the south shore of Loch Carron. It was built in 1866 in the Scottish baronial style, to designs by Alexander Ross, for Scottish Member of Parliament and businessman Alexander Matheson. The castle remained in the Matheson family until the 1920s, when it was sold to Sir Daniel Hamilton and his wife Margaret, who owned the neighbouring estate. The Hamiltons intended to use the castle for educational purposes in the local community, but this never came to fruition and following the outbreak of World War II, the castle was used as a naval hospital. By the end of the war, Daniel Hamilton had died, and Margaret bequeathed the castle to the local council, which converted it for use as a home economics college for girls, operating in this capacity until its closure in 1989. After standin ...
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Duncraig Railway Station
, symbol_location = gb , symbol = rail , image = Duncraig Loch Carron.jpg , caption = The platform alongside Loch Carron, looking northeast , borough = Duncraig Castle, near Plockton, Highland , country = Scotland , coordinates = , grid_name = Grid reference , grid_position = , manager = ScotRail , platforms = 1 , code = DCG , original = Highland Railway , pregroup = Highland Railway , postgroup = LMSR , years = 1897 , events = Opened as private station Duncraig Platform , years2 = 23 May 1949 , events2 = Opened to the public , years3 = 10 September 1962 , events3 = Renamed , years4 = 7 December 1964 , events4 = Closed , years5 = 5 January 1976 , events5 = Reopened , mpassengers = , footnotes = Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road Duncraig railway station is a remote railway station by the shore of Loch Carron on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, originally (privately) serving Duncraig Castle, a mansion near Plockton, in the Highlan ...
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Duncraig, Western Australia
Duncraig is a northern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, and is located north of Perth's central business district (CBD) between Marmion Avenue and Mitchell Freeway. Its local government area is the City of Joondalup. History Not much is known about Duncraig before the residential settlement boom – the majority of land in the area remained largely undeveloped until the 1960s. In 1969, the name Duncraig was approved, and was first used as a promotional name. It is of Scottish origin. In 1967, planning stages commenced for a Marmion Town Centre with of retail space by 1986 in the southwestern corner of the suburb to be developed by the Lands Department in conjunction with the Rural and Industries Bank. A mining lease for sand and limestone was held by Thiess Brothers over part of the land in question (Reserve 8018), so the Lands Department suggested a road (now Burragah Way) be built to separate the proposed centre from the lease. A detailed submission ...
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