Laid is a remote, linear

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scattered along the A838 road on the western shore of the sea loch,

Loch Eriboll __NOTOC__ Loch Eriboll (Scottish Gaelic: "Loch Euraboil") is a long sea loch on the north coast of Scotland, which has been used for centuries as a deep water anchorage as it is safe from the often stormy seas of Cape Wrath and the Pentland Fir ...

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in the northern

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.Setback for Laid crofters' grazing plan
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'', 1999-10-24. Retrieved 2015-09-29.Gittings B, Munro
Laid
The Gazetteer for Scotland, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 2019-03-09. The township is close to the north coast of

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in the Scottish council area of

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around south of the village of

Durness Durness () is a village and civil parish in the north-west Highlands of Scotland. It lies on the north coast of the country in the traditional county of Sutherland, around north of Inverness. The area is remote, and the parish is huge and spar ...

. The township of

Portnancon Portnacon is a small remote crofting township, and former fishing station, on the west shore of Loch Eriboll in Sutherland, Scottish Highlands in the Scottish council area of Highland. The township is in the parish of Durness Durness () is a ...

is located northeast of Laid, along the A838 road. The township was first settled in 1832, being created to house residents of Eriboll who had been cleared from the eastern shore of Loch Erriboll.Loch Eriboll
Undiscovered Scotland. Retrieved 2015-09-29. The population has always been low with a small number of crofts on the land. The primary school closed in 1955. The area was considered as a site for a proposed "superquarry" during the 1990s. The plan would have meant a

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company, Vibel SA, develop the area for quarrying for aggregate use. The plans were dropped and Highland Council excluded the possibility of a major quarry in the area in its late 1990s structure plan, although plans for some mineral development continued.Highland estate to change hands
'' Herald Scotland'', 2000-03-27. Retrieved 2015-09-29.Crofters want mineral rights loophole closed
'' Herald Scotland'', 2003-01-03. Retrieved 2015-09-29.

References

Populated places in Sutherland Parish of Durness {{Sutherland-geo-stub