Helmsdale
Sign in to saveHelmsdale (, ) is a village on the east coast of Sutherland, in the Highland council area of Scotland. The modern village was planned in 1814 to resettle communities that had been removed from the surrounding straths as part of the Highland Clearances.
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Place details
- Locality
- Helmsdale
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 637
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Helmsdale
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Bun Ilidh
- UK place.scots_name
- Helmsdal
- UK place.population
- 764
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- ND025155
- UK place.map_type
- Sutherland
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Highland
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Sutherland
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Caithness, Sutherland and Ross
- UK place.post_town
- HELMSDALE
- UK place.postcode_district
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- +764
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Official website
- www.helmsdale.org
- Image
- Helmsdale, Lilleshall Street - geograph.org.uk - 1769780.jpg
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- P7959
- Sutherland
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- History
- Highland Clearances
- Gold rush
- Second World War and after
- 21st century developments
- Location and transport
- Tourism, culture and sport
- Economy
- People from Helmsdale
- See also
- References
- External links
Helmsdale (, ) is a village on the east coast of Sutherland, in the Highland council area of Scotland. The modern village was planned in 1814 to resettle communities that had been removed from the surrounding straths as part of the Highland Clearances.
==Toponymy== The River Helmsdale () was noted by Ptolemy as , which remains an obscure name. The Gaelic name for the village, , means 'Ilie-foot'. Norse settlers called the strath , meaning 'Dale of the Helmet', from which the modern village name Helmsdale is derived.