Plockton
Sign in to savePlockton () is a village in the Lochalsh, Wester Ross area of the Scottish Highlands with a 2020 population of 468. Plockton settlement is on the shores of Loch Carron. It faces east, away from the prevailing winds; this, together with the North Atlantic Drift, gives it a mild climate despite the far-north latitude, allowing the Cordyline australis cabbage tree to prosper.
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Plockton
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Am Ploc
- UK place.static_image_name
- Plockton - geograph.org.uk - 7345545.jpg
- UK place.static_image_alt
- White painted cottages alongside a sea inlet, with grazing and trees behind taken from high up on a nearby crag, backed by a seascape having small islets in distance
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Plockton as viewed from the bay
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.map_type
- Scotland
- UK place.population
- 378
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NG803334
- UK place.post_town
- PLOCKTON
- UK place.postcode_area
- IV
- UK place.postcode_district
- IV52
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Plockton
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Highland
- Population
- +378
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Official website
- www.plockton.com
- Image
- Plockton waterfront - geograph.org.uk - 3694450.jpg
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Plockton () is a village in the Lochalsh, Wester Ross area of the Scottish Highlands with a 2020 population of 468. Plockton settlement is on the shores of Loch Carron. It faces east, away from the prevailing winds; this, together with the North Atlantic Drift, gives it a mild climate despite the far-north latitude, allowing the Cordyline australis cabbage tree to prosper.
==History== Plockton was established as a planned fishing village on the northern edge of the Lochalsh, built "when introducing sheep farming in 1814-20 and removing the population from their old hamlets in Glen Garron, founded the villages of Jeantown and Plockton on Loch Carronside" (Geddes: 1945, pp38).