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The Black Isle offers something for everyone with it's Estate (ideal for fishing
and hunting), it's own wildlife park, beach, horse-
There is also good dining in Munlochy, Rosemarkie and Fortrose, all within a five minute drive. But if you just want to relax our tip is to throw some logs into the wood burning stove, open a bottle of wine and just enjoy the view.
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The Black Isle is not an island at all, but peninsula that juts out into the North Sea at the corner of the Moray Firth. To the north is the Cromarty Firth and the Beauly Firth lies to the south. It is accessible via the A9 than runs noth from Inverness over the Kessock Bridge.
The Black Isle derives its name from the once peaty soil on the higher ridges of
the Isle.The main town on the Black Isle is Cromarty, with its oil construction yard,
whose laird Sir Thomas Urqhuard (1611 -
Fortrose, whose cathedral dates back to the 13th century, is the resting place of one of the Lords of the Isles, the Earl of Ross. Fortrose offers an excellent vantage point across the narrows to Fort George at Chanonry Point, made famous by the tale of Coinneach Odhar, the 'Brahan Seer', who was supposedly burnt in a barrel of tar at this location. Rosemarkie is a village just outside of Fortrose, which features the Groam House Museum, a collection of cared Pictish stones, including the Rosemarkie Cross. The fishing village of Avoch is famous for one of its sons, Andrew de Moray who, in March 1297 escaped from imprisonment in England and travelled back to his family's lands in the province of Moray, raising the standard of revolt against the English and gathering a small army of rebels at Avoch castle, the remnants of which are the mound that lies directly opposite Tourie Lum. Andrew de Moray is widely thought to have masterminded the Scotish victory at Stirling Bridge on the 11th September 1297, at which a vastly superior force of English knights, consisting of some 13,000 heavy horse and 60,000 foot, were defeated by a ramshackle and vastly outnumbered force of Scots, under the nominal leadership of William 'Braveheart' Wallance. De Moray was fatally wounded that day and died several weeks later, probably at his family castle at Bothwell.
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