An oblique aerial view of Munlochy, Black Isle, looking NE.

Description An oblique aerial view of Munlochy, Black Isle, looking NE.

Date 8/4/2015

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

Catalogue Number DP 343536

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Munlochy sits at the top of the tidal inlet of Munlochy Bay, that is itself an opening of the Moray Firth. The settlement here really developed in the 1760's to house the workers of the quarry and harbour along Munlochy Bay that provided the stone to build Fort George. The B9161 from the west, slopes up from bottom R to join the A832 just to R of centre. The house at centre of the bottom of the photo lies on the line of the now dismantled railway that can still be traced through the rest of the village. The Fortrose Branch, also known as the Black Isle Railway, was a railway branch line serving Fortrose. Constructed by the Highland Railway, it opened in 1894, making a junction with the Far North Railway Line at Muir of Ord. Serving an agricultural and coastal area, it was never commercially successful and in 1951 the passenger service was withdrawn. A goods train service continued, but it too closed in 1960. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).

Accession Number 2020/58

External Reference D3426

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