The River Enrick is a river in the
Highland region
Highland ( gd, A' GhĂ idhealtachd, ; sco, Hieland) is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in the United Kingdom. It was the 7th most populous council area in Scotland at the 2011 census. It share ...
of
Scotland
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. It flows for around 22 km, in a generally northerly and then easterly direction.
It rises near
Loch na Stac at an elevation of about 490 metres, and falls rapidly until it reaches the floor of
Glen Urquhart at elevation about 120 metres. From that point the
A831 road
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closely follows its course. It flows through
Loch Meiklie
''Loch'' () is the Scottish Gaelic, Scots and Irish word for a lake or sea inlet. It is cognate with the Manx lough, Cornish logh, and one of the Welsh words for lake, llwch.
In English English and Hiberno-English, the anglicised spelling l ...
,
near
Balnain
Balnain is a small village in Glenurquhart, Scotland, about 5 miles west of Drumnadrochit. It is mostly dependent on tourism, forestry, agriculture and farming. The first buildings were created in the 1870s and 1880s and minor expansions occurred ...
.
It then flows through
Drumnadrochit
Drumnadrochit (; gd, Druim na Drochaid) is a village in the Highland local government council area of Scotland, lying near the west shore of Loch Ness at the foot of Glen Urquhart. The village is close to several neighbouring settlements: the v ...
and merges with the
River Coiltie about 100 metres before flowing into
Urquhart Bay, part of
Loch Ness
Loch Ness (; gd, Loch Nis ) is a large freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands extending for approximately southwest of Inverness. It takes its name from the River Ness, which flows from the northern end. Loch Ness is best known for clai ...
.
Ness District Salmon Fishery Board
References
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Rivers of Scotland
Loch Ness