Achiemore is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 58.5680°, -4.8210°.

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Achiemore

Achiemore in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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Achiemore is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Achiemore was a crofting community located on the Cape Wrath peninsula near the village of Durness in the Scottish county of Sutherland. The hamlet is just south of the farmstead of Daill on the western shore of the Kyle of Durness. Neither place has a permanent population with the village of Durness located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the east. Inverness is around 120 miles (190 km) to the south.

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History

Between 1935 and 1938, there were around 40 people living on the cape side. The farmsteads at Daill and Achiemore consisted of two or three buildings with assorted enclosures. Up to 10 children from across the cape were known to attend a side school to Durness Primary School which was located at Achiemore. The school closed in 1947 and the whole area of the cape is now virtually uninhabited. The school building stood until the early 1990s, when its roof blew off in strong winds, and its walls were taken down to strengthen the wooden bridge constructed by the Royal Marines in 1980 crossing the Daill River to the north west of Achiemore. A site at Eilean nan Caorach, around 2 mi north of…

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