Castle Stuart, Culloden
#5 among attractions in Culloden
Facts and practical information
Castle Stuart is a restored tower house on the banks of the Moray Firth, about 6.5 miles northeast of Inverness. ()
Castle Stuart – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Fort George, Clava Cairns, Caledonian Stadium, Fortrose Cathedral.
Historical place, Forts and castlesFort George, Ardersier
115 min walk • Fort George stands as a monumental relic of Scotland's military history, located near the village of Ardersier, northeast of Inverness. This fortress, constructed in the wake of the 1746 Battle of Culloden, was intended to secure the British government's hold over the...
Well-preserved Bronze Age burial siteClava Cairns, Culloden
89 min walk • The Clava cairn is a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of three cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness in Scotland. There are about 50 cairns of this type in an area round about Inverness.
Arenas and stadiums, Football, Sport venueCaledonian Stadium, Inverness
118 min walk • The Caledonian Stadium, is an association football stadium situated in the Longman area of Inverness, Scotland, near the banks of the Moray Firth.
ChurchFortrose Cathedral, Fortrose and Rosemarkie
109 min walk • Fortrose Cathedral was the episcopal seat of the medieval Scottish diocese of Ross in the Highland region of Scotland. It is probable that the original site of the diocese was at Rosemarkie, but by the 13th century the canons had relocated a short distance to the south-west, to the site known as Fortrose or Chanonry.
57°28'38"N • 4°5'34"WCulloden Battlefield, Culloden
78 min walk • Battlefield, Historical place, Visitor center
Specialty museum, Art museum, MuseumGroam House Museum, Fortrose and Rosemarkie
125 min walk • Groam House Museum is a museum of Celtic and Pictish Art. Located in the village of Rosemarkie in the Black Isle, Scotland, its collection contains both the Rosemarkie Stone, one of the major surviving examples of Pictish art in stone, and the Rosemarkie sculpture fragments...
Forts and castlesKilravock Castle
115 min walk • Kilravock Castle is located near the village of Croy, between Inverness and Nairn, in the council area of Highland, Scotland. It was begun around 1460 and has been the seat of the Clan Rose since that time.
BridgeCulloden Viaduct, Culloden
85 min walk • The Culloden Viaduct, known also as the Nairn Viaduct, the Culloden Moor Viaduct or the Clava Viaduct is a railway viaduct on the Highland Main Line, to the east of the city of Inverness, in the Highland council area of Scotland.
Archaeological siteCawdor
111 min walk • Cawdor, located near the small village of Easter Galcantray, is suspected of being one of the northernmost Roman forts in Great Britain, though this evidence is controversial.
ChurchBarn Church, Inverness
69 min walk • The Barn Church is a parish church of the Church of Scotland at Culloden, in the Presbytery of Inverness. Although the congregation is relatively young, and only received full status as a parish church in its own right in the late 1980s, the building is of considerable historical interest.
Golf, Outdoor activities, Forts and castlesCastle Stuart, Culloden
13 min walk • Castle Stuart is a restored tower house on the banks of the Moray Firth, about 6.5 miles northeast of Inverness. The land the castle was built on was granted to James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray by his half-sister, Mary, Queen of Scots, following her return to Scotland in 1561.
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