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Gairloch is one of the principal villages on the North Coast 500 route. The parish of Gairloch extends over a much wider area, including the villages of Poolewe, Kinlochewe and Aultbea, and has a population of 950. [2] The nearest railway station is located at Achnasheen, and the nearest mainland airport is in Inverness .
Sport. Together with the nearby village of Gairloch, Aultbea has an amateur football team – Gairloch Aultbea United or GA United.Most of the local population support Scottish Premier League side Ross County F.C., based in Dingwall, 70 miles (110 km) away, as this is the closest league team to the Aultbea area.
Dry Island is located on the small harbour of Badachro and sheltered by Eilean Horrisdale, the largest island in Loch Gairloch. [4] It is connected to the mainland by a floating footbridge built in the 1990s. [5] Next to Dry Island is the smaller Island, Sgeir Ghlas, which can be reached by foot during low tide or by boat.
Badachro sits about 3 km south of Gairloch on the shore of Gair Loch, and is a natural harbour popular with yachts. Approximately 2 miles to the SE are located the Fairy Lochs, the site of a 1945 plane crash which is now a designated war grave. The crash site has been preserved as a memorial to the USAAF servicemen who lost their lives in the ...
The demography of England has since 1801 been measured by the decennial national census, and is marked by centuries of population growth and urbanization. Due to the lack of authoritative contemporary sources, estimates of the population of England for dates prior to the first census in 1801 vary considerably.
Ross and Cromarty ( Scottish Gaelic: Ros agus Cromba ), also referred to as Ross-shire and Cromartyshire, is a variously defined area in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. There is a registration county and a lieutenancy area in current use, the latter of which is 8,019 square kilometres (3,096 square miles) in extent.
The ONS classified all built-up areas with a population of at least 200,000 as major. Most are cities [1] with some exceptional towns; Luton, Northampton and Reading) The West Midlands county has three cities over 200,000; Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton . #. Built-up area. 2021 Population.
The population of the United Kingdom was estimated at almost 67.6 million people in 2022. It is the 21st most populated country in the world and has a population density of 279 people per square kilometre (720 people/sq mi), with England having significantly greater density than Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.