Westhill (

Gaelic Gaelic (pronounced for Irish Gaelic and for Scots Gaelic) is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". It may refer to: Languages * Gaelic languages or Goidelic languages, a linguistic group that is one of the two branches of the Insul ...

: ''Cnoc Shuas'') is a commuter village on the eastern outskirts of the city of

Inverness Inverness (; ; from the , meaning "Mouth of the River Ness") is a city in the Scottish Highlands, having been granted city status in 2000. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highland ...

, in the

Highland council area Highland (, ; ) is a council areas of Scotland, council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in both Scotland and the United Kingdom. It was the 7th most populous council area in Scotland at the United Kingdo ...

of Scotland. It is about from the city centre, between

Cradlehall Cradlehall was originally the name given to the hall built by Major William Caulfeild, later known as Cradlehall Farmhouse. The name "Cradle" supposedly comes from a pulley-operated lift (called a cradle) that was used to hoist drunken guests u ...

and Culloden, to the south of the

Moray Firth The Moray Firth (; , or ) is a roughly triangular inlet (or firth) of the North Sea, north and east of Inverness, which is in the Highland council area of the north of Scotland. It is the largest firth in Scotland, stretching from Duncans ...

. The historic

Culloden Battlefield The Battle of Culloden took place on 16 April 1746, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. A Jacobite Army (1745), Jacobite army under Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a Kingdom of Great Britain, British government force comma ...

lies away, to the east.

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Populated places in Inverness committee area Areas of Inverness {{Inverness-geo-stub