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Avoch

Avoch
Avoch is located in Highland
Avoch
Avoch
Avoch shown within the Highland council area
Population

891  (2001 census)

est. 1,000 (2006)
OS grid reference NH699553
Council area
Country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town AVOCH
Postcode district IV9 8xx
Dialling code 01381 62
Police Scottish
Fire Scottish
Ambulance Scottish
EU Parliament Scotland
UK Parliament
Scottish Parliament
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UK
Scotland
57°34′10″N 4°10′31″W / 57.569327°N 4.175335°W / 57.569327; -4.175335Coordinates: 57°34′10″N 4°10′31″W / 57.569327°N 4.175335°W / 57.569327; -4.175335

891  (2001 census)

Avoch (Listeni/ˈɒx/ OKH; from the Scottish Gaelic: Abhach – meaning mouth of the stream) is a harbour-village located on the south-east coast of the Black Isle, on the Moray Firth.

Ormond Castle or Avoch Castle was a stronghold built on the site and served as a royal castle to William the Lion; passed on to the Morays of Petty then Archibald the Grim, Lord of Galloway, upon his marriage to Joanna de Moravia in 1362. Descendants of Archibald, were to take the title of Earl of Ormonde from the castle. Legend has it that the village was founded by survivors of the Spanish Armada.

Intrepid Scottish-Canadian explorer Sir Alexander Mackenzie, the first European to explore the great Canadian river now known as the Mackenzie River, crossing North America twice, to the Arctic Ocean in 1789 and Pacific Ocean in 1793, retired to Avoch in 1812 where he died in 1820 and was buried in the old Avoch Parish churchyard.


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