The surrounding area is steeped in history. Culloden Battlefield with its visitor centre and museum is only a 5 minute drive away. Clava Cairns and its standing stones are also close by, as is the 14th Century Cawdor Castle and the formidable Fort George, built after the battle of Culloden by the army of King George II.
Nearby Points of Interest
- Culloden Visitor Centre (5 mi)
- The course of British, European and world history was changed here at Culloden on 16 April 1746. It was here that the Jacobite army fought to reclaim the throne of Britain from the Hanoverians for a Stuart king. The British army was equally determined to stop this happening. The ferocious European war had come to Scotland - dividing families and setting clan against clan.
- Cawdor Castle (20 mi)
- Cawdor. A magical name, romantically linked by Shakespeare with Macbeth. A superb fairy-tale Castle, and just what every visitor is looking for ... Scottish history that you can touch and see and sense for yourself. Cawdor Castle is not another cold monument, but a splendid house and the home of the Cawdor family to this day