Erchless Castle

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Erchless Castle is an L-plan castle in northern Scotland, near Struy, Highland. The current building was built in about 1600. The castle is located at the northeast end of Strathglass at the point where the Erchless Burn enters the River Beauly, itself newly formed from the confluence of the rivers Glass and Farrar immediately to the south of the castle. ()

Built: XIII centuryCoordinates: 57°25'47"N, 4°38'57"W

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Erchless Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Beinn a' Bhathaich Àrd, Kilmorack Gallery, Eilean Aigas, Aigas Field Centre.

3.5 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Beinn a' Bhathaich Àrd
90 min walk • Beinn a' Bhathaich Àrd is mountain on the northern side of Glen Strathfarrar, in the Highlands of Scotland. It is situated at the eastern end of the glen, 5 km north-west of the village of Struy, and 16 km west of Beauly.
5.6 miNE
Art gallery, Shopping, Art museum
Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly
144 min walk • Kilmorack Gallery reuses a converted church building for its exhibitions, in a rural location near Beauly in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
3.6 miE
Island
Eilean Aigas
92 min walk • Eilean Aigas is an island in the River Beauly, Scotland, in Kiltarlity parish in traditional Inverness-shire, now Highland Region.
3.1 miE
Nature and wildlife, Park
Aigas Field Centre, Beauly
79 min walk • Aigas Field Centre is a nature centre based at the home of naturalist and author Sir John Lister-Kaye, Aigas House. The centre was opened in 1977 by ecologist Sir Frank Fraser Darling, and provides nature-based holidays for adults and environmental education services for school children.
5.5 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Waterfall
Culnaskiach Falls, Drumnadrochit
140 min walk • Culnaskiach Falls is a waterfall in Boblainy Forest, to the south of the village of Kiltarlity, in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is on a small stream which flows into the Bruiach Burn.
7.7 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Waterfall
Eas Maol Mhairi, Drumnadrochit
198 min walk • Eas Maol Mhairi is a waterfall of Scotland. Just east of this waterfall is the River Cannich.
2.1 miW
Waterfall, Nature
Culligran Falls, Beauly
53 min walk • Glen Strathfarrar is a glen in the Highland region of Scotland, near Loch Ness. The Glen is part of the Affric-Beauly hydro-electric power scheme, with a dam at Loch Monar and a 9 km tunnel carrying water to an underground power station at Deanie; a second dam just below Loch...