Abriachan (;
Gaelic: ''Obar Itheachan''), is a village in the
Highland
Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally, ''upland'' refers to a range of hills, typically from up to , while ''highland'' is usually reserved for range ...
council area of
Scotland
Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...
. It is situated high above the western shore of
Loch Ness
Loch Ness (; ) is a large freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands. It takes its name from the River Ness, which flows from the northern end. Loch Ness is best known for claimed sightings of the cryptozoology, cryptozoological Loch Ness Mons ...
, 15 km to the south-west of the city of
Inverness. The village has a population of approximately 120. There are no schools in Abriachan, so children travel by bus into Inverness or to
Dochgarroch or
Tomnacross for their education.
At the bottom of the Abriachan hill, where the Kilianan stream meets Loch Ness, is Abriachan Garden Nursery, with a woodland walk and plant selling area.
GPost office
Abriachan
post office
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opened on 25 July 1882, and for many years from the early 1960s was run by
Katharine Stewart and her family. An account of life in the Highlands, and of its postal services, was published in 1997. The post office closed on 8 April 2008.
Abriachan Forest
Abriachan Forest is an upland area of conifer forest and open hillside, covering 536 hectares, It was owned by the
Forestry Commission
The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the management of publicly owned forests and the regulation of both public and private forestry in England.
The Forestry Commission was previously also respons ...
until 1998, when it was sold to Abriachan Forest Trust for £152,000.
Abriachan Forest Trust is a community group formed to buy and manage the forest, and they are working to encourage recreational and educational use of the forest. They have developed a number of paths and mountain bike trails around the area, including the
Great Glen Way long-distance path passing through.
Notable residents
*John Somerville,
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...
player with
Croft No. Five and
Box Club
*
Katharine Stewart, author of A Croft in the Hills
*
John Barr, international
shinty
Shinty () is a team sport played with sticks and a ball. It is played mainly in the Scottish Highlands and among Highland migrants to the major cities of Scotland. The sport was formerly more widespread in Scotland and even played in Northern ...
player
*Gregor Borland, Internationally acclaimed Scottish Fiddle player. Also part of folk trio
ther Roads
See also
*
Aber and Inver as place-name elements
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Loch Ness (; ) is a large freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands. It takes its name from the River Ness, which flows from the northern end. Loch Ness is best known for claimed sightings of the cryptozoology, cryptozoological Loch Ness Mons ...
References
External links
Abriachan community website
Populated places in Inverness committee area
Community buyouts in Scotland
Loch Ness
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