Highland council area

Geography
Area - Total - % Water	Ranked 1st 25,659 km² ? %
Admin HQ	Inverness
ISO 3166-2	GB-HLD
ONS code	00QT
Demographics
Population - Total (April 29, 2001) - Density	Ranked 8th 208,914 8 / km²
Politics
Highland Council http://www.highland.gov.uk/
Control	Independent (Convener: Alison Magee)
MPs	Danny Alexander for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Charles Kennedy for Ross, Skye and Lochaber John Thurso for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
MSPs	Eleanor Scott for Highlands and Islands Fergus Ewing for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber Jamie McGrigor for Highlands and Islands Jamie Stone for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Jim Mather for Highlands and Islands John Farquhar Munro for Ross, Skye and Inverness West Mary Scanlon for Highlands and Islands Maureen MacMillan for Highlands and Islands Peter Peacock for Highlands and Islands Rob Gibson for Highlands and Islands

The Highland area (Roinn na Gàidhealtachd^[1] in Gaelic) is a unitary authority area in the Scottish Highlands and the largest administrative region in Scotland. It shares borders with the Scottish unitary authority areas of Moray, Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross, and Argyll and Bute. Their councils, and those of Angus and Stirling, also have areas of the Scottish Highlands within their administrative boundaries. The Highland area covers most of the mainland and inner-Hebridean parts of the traditional counties of Inverness-shire, Ross-shire, and Cromartyshire, all of Sutherland, Nairnshire and Caithness, and the far north-west of Argyll. council area of Scotland File links The following pages link to this file: Highland Categories: NowCommons | GFDL images ... This article explains the meaning of area as a Physical quantity. ... This is a list of districts of Scotland ordered by area. ... 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Jump to: navigation, search This is a list of MPs elected in the UK general election, 2005 to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom at the United Kingdom general election, 2005, arranged by constituency. ... Jump to: navigation, search Daniel Grian Alexander (born 15 May 1972) is a politician in the United Kingdom and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey. ... Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Jump to: navigation, search Charles Kennedy, current leader of the UK Liberal Democrat Party The Right Honourable Charles Peter Kennedy (born 25 November 1959) is a British politician, who has been leader of the Liberal Democrats (the third largest political party in the United Kingdom) since 1999. ... Ross, Skye and Lochaber is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... John Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso John Archibald Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso (born 10 September 1953), known as John Thurso, is a British businessman and Liberal Democrat politician. ... Jump to: navigation, search Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Jump to: navigation, search Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament. ... Eleanor Scott, born July 23, 1951 in Inverness, is a Green Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Highlands and Islands. ... The Highlands and Islands is one of the eight electoral areas for the Scottish Parliament through which 7 of the 56 Additional Members System MSPs are elected. ... Fergus Ewing, born September 23, 1957 is a Scottish National Party (SNP) MSP. He is the son of veteran Scottish Nationalist Winnie Ewing (his father was also a SNP councillor) and has long been active in the SNP. He studied law at the University of Glasgow where he was a... Jump to: navigation, search Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber is a constituency represented in the Scottish Parliament. ... Jamie Stone (born 16 June 1954) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross. ... Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament. ... Jim Mather was born on March 6, 1947. ... John Farquhar Munro, born 26 August 1934 in Glen Shiel, is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Ross, Skye and Inverness West. ... Ross, Skye and Inverness West is a constituency represented in the Scottish Parliament. ... Peter Peacock, (Born 27 May 1952) has been a Labour regional list Member of the Scottish Parliament for Highlands and Islands since 1999. ... Rob Gibson (born October 19, 1945) is a Scottish politician. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... A unitary authority is a type of local authority, which has a single-tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area. ... The Scottish Highlands are the mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. ... Timeline of Scottish history Caledonia List of not fully sovereign nations Subdivisions of Scotland National parks (Scotland) Traditional music of Scotland Flower of Scotland Wars of Scottish Independence National Trust for Scotland Historic houses in Scotland Castles in Scotland Museums in Scotland Abbeys and priories in Scotland Gardens in Scotland... The council areas of Scotland form the local government areas of Scotland, all of them unitary authorities. ... This article is about the region in Scotland. ... Aberdeenshire (Siorrachd Obar Dheathain in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland. ... Perth and Kinross (Peairt agus Ceann Rois in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council areas in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy Area. ... Argyll and Bute (Earra-Ghaidheal agus Bòd in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy Area. ... Angus (Aonghas in Gaelic) is one of the traditional counties and also one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland and a Lieutenancy area. ... Jump to: navigation, search Stirling (Sruighlea in Gaelic) is a city in Central Scotland, in the district of Stirling. ... The traditional counties of Scotland are historic and cutural divisions of Scotland. ... Jump to: navigation, search Inverness-shire (Siorrachd Inbhir Nis in Gaelic) is one of the traditional counties of Scotland. ... Ross-shire (Siorrachd Rois in Gaelic), a traditional county of Scotland, borders on Sutherland, Cromartyshire (of which it contains many enclaves), Inverness-shire and on an exclave of Nairnshire. ... Cromartyshire (Siorrachd Chromba in Gaelic) is a traditional county in the north of Scotland, consisting of a series of enclaves within Ross-shire. ... Sutherland (Cataibh in Gaelic), or Sutherlandshire, is a traditional county in the north of Scotland, bordering on Caithness to the north and both Ross-shire and Cromartyshire to the south. ... Nairnshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Narann in Gaelic) is a small traditional county of Scotland, centred around Nairn, the traditional county town. ... Caithness (Gallaibh in Gaelic) is a traditional county and former administrative county within the Highland area of Scotland. ... Argyll, sometimes called Argyllshire, is one of the traditional counties of Scotland. ...

The area was created as a region in 1975, and had the districts Badenoch and Strathspey, Caithness, Inverness, Lochaber, Nairn, Ross and Cromarty, Skye and Lochalsh, Sutherland. In 1996 these district councils were wound up and their functions were transferred to the Highland Council, making it a unitary authority. Jump to: navigation, search 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Badenoch and Strathspey was formerly (1975_96) a local government district in the Highland Region of Scotland. ... Caithness District was created as an administrative area in 1975 and consisted of the traditional county of Caithness and the Strathnaver area of Sutherland. ... Inverness (Inbhir Nis in Scottish Gaelic) is the only city in the Scottish Highlands. ... Lochaber (Scottish Gaelic, Loch Abar) refers to a large area of the central and western Scottish Highlands. ... Nairnshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Narann in Gaelic) is a small traditional county of Scotland, centred around Nairn, the traditional county town. ... Ross and Cromarty: administrative county (1889-1975) Ross and Cromarty: district council (1975-1996) Ross and Cromarty: lieutenancy area (1996-date) Ross and Cromarty (Ros agus Cromba in Gaelic) was until 1975, an administrative county, originally formed in 1889 as a merger of Ross-shire and Cromartyshire. ... Skye and Lochalsh was formerly (1975-96) a local government district in the Highland Region of Scotland, comprising the islands of Skye and Raasay, and the mainland area heading inland from Kyle of Lochalsh. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sutherland may mean or refer to the following places or areas: Sutherland, New South Wales, Australia — the suburb of Sydney Sutherland Shire — the local government area of Sydney Sutherland, Saskatchewan, Canada — the former town which was annexed by Saskatoon in 1956 Saskatoon Sutherland, Canada — electoral district... Jump to: navigation, search 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

To many people within the area using the name Highland as a noun sounds wrong. Dingwall in Highland, for example, sounds very strange and is not idiomatic usage. To refer specifically to the area covered by the council, people tend to say the Highland Council area or the Highland area or the Highland region. Otherwise they tend to use the traditional county names, such as Ross-shire. Use of Highlands (or Scottish Highlands) to refer to the council area is wrong, but the two areas are often confused.^[2] Also, the Highland area is often confused with that of the Highlands and Islands. Location within the British Isles. ... The Highlands and Islands area is sometimes defined as that to which the Crofters Act of 1886 applied. ...

Area committees are named after the old districts. Many large British councils have a system of area committees, with responsibility for services in particular part of the area covered by the council. ...

The unitary authority's chief urban area is Inverness. Inverness (Inbhir Nis in Scottish Gaelic) is the only city in the Scottish Highlands. ...

Politics

Councillors

The council represents 80 wards. Each ward elects one councillor by the first past the post system of election. (See List of Highland Council wards and councillors.) There are plans, however, to abolish existing wards and to create new larger wards for the next round of elections, with each ward electing three or four councillors by the single transferable vote system. The total number of councillors will remain the same. Jump to: navigation, search A ward is an electoral district used in local politics, most notably in England, Scotland, and Wales, as well as Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and many cities in the United States and the federal district of Washington, DC. Wards are... A councillor is a member of a council (such as a city council), particularly in the U.K., Canada, and its former colonies. ... The first-past-the-post electoral system is a voting system for single-member districts, variously called first-past-the-post (FPTP or FPP), winner-take-all, plurality voting, or relative majority. ... Jump to: navigation, search An election is a decision making process whereby people vote for preferred political candidates or parties to act as representatives in government. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Highland council represents 80 wards in the north of Scotland. ... Jump to: navigation, search This STV ballot for the Australian Senate illustrates group voting tickets. ...

The next round of elections is scheduled to be held in 2007. Jump to: navigation, search 2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Members of the Scottish Parliament

In the Scottish Parliament the Highland area is represented by Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) elected from three constituencies: Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber and Ross, Skye and Inverness West. Each constituency elects one MSP by the first past the post system of election. Jump to: navigation, search The Scottish Parliament (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba in Gaelic, Scots Pairlament in Scots) is the national unicameral legislature of Scotland. ... Jump to: navigation, search Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament. ... Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament. ... Jump to: navigation, search Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber is a constituency represented in the Scottish Parliament. ... Ross, Skye and Inverness West is a constituency represented in the Scottish Parliament. ... The first-past-the-post electoral system is a voting system for single-member districts, variously called first-past-the-post (FPTP or FPP), winner-take-all, plurality voting, or relative majority. ...

Also, the Highland area is within the Highlands and Islands electoral area, which elects seven MSPs by a party list system of election. The Highlands and Islands is one of the eight electoral areas for the Scottish Parliament through which 7 of the 56 Additional Members System MSPs are elected. ... The Additional Member System (AMS) is a voting system where some representatives are elected from geographic constituencies and others are elected under proportional representation from party lists. ...

Members of Parliament

In the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom the Highland area is represented by Members of Parliament (MPs) elected from three constituencies: Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey and Ross, Skye and Lochaber. Each constituency elects one MP by the first past the post system of election. Jump to: navigation, search The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and is now the dominant branch of Parliament. ... The Houses of Parliament, seen over Westminster Bridge The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... The United Kingdom has now four bodies with members elected by constituencies: The House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom The Scottish Parliament The Welsh Assembly The Northern Ireland Assembly The House of Commons has over 600 constituencies representing the whole of the United Kingdom. ... Jump to: navigation, search Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Ross, Skye and Lochaber is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The first-past-the-post electoral system is a voting system for single-member districts, variously called first-past-the-post (FPTP or FPP), winner-take-all, plurality voting, or relative majority. ...

Towns and villages in the Highland Council area

• Alness, Altnaharra, Applecross, Aviemore
• Back of Keppoch, Ballachulish
• Cromarty
• Dalwhinnie, Dingwall, Dornoch, Durness
• Fort Augustus, Fortrose, Fort William
• Gairloch
• Glencoe, Golspie
• Helmsdale
• Invergordon
• John o' Groats
• Kingussie, Kinlochbervie, Kinlochleven, Kyle of Lochalsh
• Mallaig
• Nairn, Newtonmore, North Ballachulish
• Plockton
• South Ballachulish
• Tain, Thurso, Tobermory, Tongue, Torridon
• Ullapool
• Wick

Jump to: navigation, search Alness is a village in the Scottish Highlands. ... Altnaharra (Ordnance Survey grid reference NC567352) is a small hamlet in Sutherland in the Highland region of northern Scotland. ... The Pass of the Cattle was until the late 20th century the only road linking Applecross with the rest of the country Applecross is a small settlement at the edge of the Applecross Peninsula in Wester Ross, on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands. ... Aviemore (Scottish Gaelic: An Aghaidh Mhòr) is a tourist resort in the Highlands of Scotland. ... Back of Keppoch is a small settlement in the north west Scottish Highlands, approximately 40 miles west of Fort William on the A830 road to Mallaig. ... Ballachulish slate quarry The Scottish village of Ballachulishis around the former slate quarries. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Dornoch is a royal burgh and seaside resort in Sutherland on the east coast of the Scottish Highlands, and the north shore of the Dornoch Firth. ... Durness with Smoo Cave, the youth-hostel is up on the right side. ... Fort Augustus is a settlement in the Scottish Highlands, at the south west end of Loch Ness. ... Fortrose is a burgh in the Scottish Highlands, located on the Moray Firth, approximately ten kilometres north east of Inverness. ... Fort William from Loch Linnhe Fort William is the largest town in the western Scottish Highlands (in the Highland unitary authority), and a major tourist centre. ... Gairloch is a small village on the shores of Loch Gairloch on the northwest coast of Scotland. ... Glencoe village is the main settlement in Glen Coe. ... Golspie is a small,coastal village in the far North of Scotland. ... Helmsdale is a village on the east coast of the Highland region of Scotland. ... Invergordon is a town and port in northern Scotland. ... Jump to: navigation, search John o Groats location within the British Isles John o Groats (Taigh Iain Ghròt in Scottish Gaelic) (grid reference ND380734) is a village in the traditional county of Caithness, in the Highland region of Scotland, and is usually regarded as the most northerly settlement... Kingussie is a small burgh in the Scottish Highlands adjacent to the A9 road, although the old route of the A9 served as the towns main street. ... Kinlochbervie is a harbour town in the North West of the Scottish county of Sutherland, in Highland region. ... Kinlochleven is a village in Scotland and lies at the eastern end of Loch Leven, a sea loch cutting into the western Scottish Highlands. ... Kyle of Lochalsh is a small village on the North-West coast of Scotland, which developed in the late 19th century with the arrival of the railway. ... Mallaig is a port on the west coast of the Highlands in Scotland. ... Nairn (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Narann) is a burgh in the Scottish Highlands, lying about fifteen miles east of Inverness. ... Newtonmore is a village in the Highlands of Scotland with a population of about 1000. ... Plockton during Regatta Saturday, the end to the annual sailing fortnight Plockton is a village in the Highlands of Scotland, with a population of 378 [1]. It is a picturesque settlement on the shores of Loch Carron. ... You may be looking for an article on the Táin Bó Cuailnge, often referred to simply as the Táin. Tain is a burgh in the Scottish Highlands, on the main rail and A9 road routes to the north coast. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article refers to the town in Scotland. ... Tobermory, Mull Tobermory is the capital of and the only burgh on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. ... Tongue is a village on the north coast of the Highlands of Scotland. ... Liathach, the highest of the Torridon hills Torridon is a small village in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. ... Ullapool is a small town in the County of Cromartyshire in the western Scottish Highlands. ... Wick is a coastal town on the main highway linking John O Groats with southern Britain, a royal burgh and the county town of Caithness, in the far north of Scotland. ...

Places of interest in the Highland Council area

• Cairngorms National Park
• Castle Tioram
• Cawdor Castle
• Culloden Battlefield
• Fort George
• Glencoe
• Glenfinnan
• Glen Orchy
• Glen Spean
• Highland Folk Museum
• Loch Linnhe
• Loch Lochy
• Loch Ness
• Rannoch Moor
• Skibo Castle
• Tor Castle
• Urquhart Castle
• West Highland Way

See Scottish Highlands for more information.


The Cairngorms National Park is a national park in North-eastern Scotland. ... Castle Tioram (pronounced Chee-rum) is a ruined castle that sits on a tidal island in Loch Moidart, Scotland, south of Mallaig, 50 miles from Fort William. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Battle of Culloden (April 16, 1746), was the last military clash in mainland Britain, between the forces of the Jacobites and the British Army. ... There is also a later Fort George in Canada. ... Glencoe village is the main settlement in Glen Coe. ... About half-way along the picturesque Scottish West Highland Railway line between Fort William and Mallaig lies Glenfinnan station. ... Glen Orchy is a long valley in Argyll in Scotland. ... Loch Linnhe is a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland. ... Loch Lochy as viewed from the A82 Loch Lochy is a large body of fresh water in the Highlands of Scotland. ... Loch Ness (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Nis) is a large, deep freshwater lake (known in Scotland as a loch) in the Scottish Highlands, extending for approximately 37 km (23 miles) southwest of Inverness. ... Rannoch Moor is a large expanse of around 30 square miles (78 km²) of boggy moorland to the west of Loch Rannoch, in the Watsonian Vice County of Mid Perth and the County of Perthshire, in Scotland. ... Skibo Castle is located to the west of Dornoch in Sutherland, Scotland overlooking the Dornoch Firth. ... Urquhart Castle, main tower Urquhart Castle (Ordnance Survey grid reference NH530286) sits beside Loch Ness in Scotland along a strategic road, the A82, between Fort William and Inverness. ... The West Highland Way is a long distance footpath in Scotland. ... The Scottish Highlands are the mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. ...

Footnotes

• 1. ^  Gàidhealtachd in Roinn na Gàidhealtachd and Comhairle na Gaidhealtachd (Highland Couincil) is used to translate Highland. In other contexts it is used to translate Scottish Highlands and Gaeldom.
• 2. ^  Confusion of Highland with Highlands is common in Highland Council literature, where it is perhaps quite deliberate.

The Gàidhealtachd, sometimes known as A Ghàidhealtachd (the Gàidhealtachd), usually refers to the Scottish Highlands in Scottish Gaelic. ...

External link

• Highland Council (Comhairle na Gaidhealtachd)

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