Aerial view of Inverness Retail Park, looking S.

Description Aerial view of Inverness Retail Park, looking S.

Date 4/10/2012

Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

Catalogue Number DP 342887

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content This is a general view of the eastern development of Inverness, focussing on the Inverness Retail Park. Stoneyfield Business Park is on the right and behind the retail park is the site for the UHI Campus at Beechwood Farm. Raigmore Hospital and Beechwood Business Park are to its right. Inshes Retail Park is just above centre and in the distance at the top of the photo can be seen Lochs Ness, Ashie and Duntelchaig. The Retail Park was built at Wester Seafield in 1996. An excavation was carried out in advance of building and a Bronze Age cemetery was discovered. Arrangements also had to be made for the badgers who were displaced by the development. Raigmore Hospital opened in 1941. Upgrades resulted in a new general hospital being established with Phase 1 incorporating the Outpatients Department, laboratories, pharmacy and records in 1971. Phase 2 was opened in 1985, providing wards to replace the old blocks. A maternity unit was built on the site of the original wards in 1988. Inshes Retail Park was developed in the late 1990s. Beechwood Farm was built in the C19 and raised bulls for breeding purposes, but in 2010 it was identified as the ideal site for the new UHI campus. This was opened in 2015. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).

Accession Number 2020/58

External Reference D2697

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2108061

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