Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Aultbea

Aultbea, a coast hamlet in Poolewe quoad sacra parish, W Ross-shire, 7 miles NNE of Poolewe village. It has a post office, an inn, a schoolhouse, a Free church, and fairs on the Friday before the first Tuesday of July and the Wednesday in October before Beauly; with Glasgow it communicates by steamboat.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a coast hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ross Shire County
Place: Aultbea

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