Poolewe Village Hall

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The Poolewe Stone is a Class-I Pictish stone discovered in 1992 in the cemetery at Poolewe in Wester Ross. The stone carries the common Pictish depictions of a crescent and v-rod. Chiseled inside the crescent are some hollows and two spirals meeting to form a pelta. Today the stone lies in the church yard. ()

Coordinates: 57°46'2"N, 5°36'4"W

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Poolewe Village Hall – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Inverewe Garden, Gairloch Heritage Museum, Gairloch Stone, Loch Maree.

0.6 miN
Garden, Park, Botanical garden
Inverewe Garden, Gairloch
16 min walk • Inverewe Garden is a botanical garden in the Scottish Highlands. It is located just to the north of Poolewe in Wester Ross, and is noted for the breadth of its collection.
4.2 miSW
Specialty museum, Museum
Gairloch Heritage Museum, Gairloch
109 min walk • Gairloch Museum is an independent museum in the Wester Ross region of Scotland. The museum is located in the Highland village of Gairloch, in Achtercairn. The museum moved to a new site in 2019- a former Cold War building that had been converted to house exhibitions.
4.3 miSW
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Gairloch Stone, Gairloch
109 min walk • The Gairloch Stone is a Class-I Pictish stone which was discovered at Achtercairn in Wester Ross around 1880. Subsequently, the stone was used as masonry for the cemetery wall of Gairloch's church.
7.3 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Loch Maree
187 min walk • Loch Maree is a loch in Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. At 21.7 km long and with a maximum width of four kilometres, it is the fourth-largest freshwater loch in Scotland; it is the largest north of Loch Ness.
5.3 miSE
Island
Eilean Ruairidh Mòr
136 min walk • Eilean Ruairidh Mòr is a forested island in Loch Maree, Wester Ross, Scotland. Its name was formerly anglicised as "Ellan-Rorymore". The island is owned by Forestry and Land Scotland, as is the Slattadale Forest on the southern shore of Loch Maree.
6 miSE
Island
Garbh Eilean
155 min walk • Garbh Eilean is a forested island in Loch Maree, Wester Ross, Scotland. Garbh Eilean lies between Eilean Sùbhainn and Eilean Ruairidh Mòr. The islands are among the least disturbed in Britain.
6.9 miSE
Island
Eilean Sùbhainn
175 min walk • Eilean Sùbhainn is the largest of several small islands in Loch Maree, Wester Ross, Scotland. It is the second largest freshwater island in Scotland after Inchmurrin. Lying 1 mile northeast of Talladale, the island is partially forested and uninhabited. It rises to 36 metres and extends to 118 hectares.
4.5 miN
Island
Isle of Ewe
116 min walk • The Isle of Ewe is a small Scottish island on the west coast of Ross and Cromarty. The island is inhabited by a single family, the Grants, who have lived at the Main House in the south of the island since the mid-19th century.