Glenuig is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.8297°, -5.8192°.

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Glenuig

Also known as: Gleann Ùig

Glenuig in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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Plan your visit

Typical visit: 45 min–1.5 h

Glenuig is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

Glenuig ( glen-OO-ig, Scottish Gaelic: Ghlìnn-Ùige) is a small village in Moidart, Lochaber, Highland, on the west coast of Scotland. It is around 30 miles (50 kilometres) west of Fort William and 20 miles (30 kilometres) from Ardnamurchan Point.

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Background

History

The area has been inhabited for thousands of years, and traces of these earlier residents are everywhere around. The coastal regions here are wild and rocky, but because of the warmer climate within the last two thousand years the inland areas were productive and heavily populated. In the last two hundred years, the population declined through enforced clearances of the glens for sheep and voluntary emigration from the harsher coastal regions to the new colonies, particularly Cape Breton and America. From 1783 to 1803, Samalaman House, on the outskirts of Glenuig, was the location of a seminary for the underground Catholic Church in Scotland. Prior to 1966, access was by foot or horseback…

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