Lairg
Sign in to savethumb|right|250px|The village of Lairg Lairg (, meaning "the shank/shin") is a village and parish in Sutherland, Scotland. It has a population of 891 and is at the south-eastern end of Loch Shin.
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- Locality
- Lairg
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 891
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Lairg
- UK place.gaelic_name
- An Luirg
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.static_image_name
- Village of Lairg in the Highlands.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Lairg
- UK place.population
- 891
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 census)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NC582064
- UK place.post_town
- LAIRG
- UK place.postcode_area
- IV
- UK place.postcode_district
- IV27
- UK place.dial_code
- 01549
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Caithness, Sutherland and Ross
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Highland
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Sutherland
- UK place.london_distance_mi
- 481
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Highland
- Population
- 891
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Village of Lairg in the Highlands.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lairg
- historic county
- Sutherland
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Sheep sales
- Gala Week
- Lairg Crofters' Show
- Little Loch Shin
- Facilities
- Transport
- Impact crater
- IV27 (Lairg) postcode area
- People associated with Lairg
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|right|250px|The village of Lairg Lairg (, meaning "the shank/shin") is a village and parish in Sutherland, Scotland. It has a population of 891 and is at the south-eastern end of Loch Shin.
Lairg is unusual in the northern Highlands in being a large settlement that is not on the coast. One of the reasons that Lairg is slightly bigger than other non-coastal Highland villages is its central location within the county of Sutherland. Having four roads which meet in the village, it used to be known as "The Crossroads of the North". In the 19th century, it was provided with a railway station (at ), on what is now the Far North Line. This development means that the north-west of Sutherland is now easier to reach. (The Far North Line links Inverness in the south with Thurso and Wick in the north.)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lairg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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