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Beauly
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| Population | Expression error: "1,164[1] (2001 census) est. 1,130[2] (2006)" must be numeric |
| OS grid reference | NH525465 |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Beauly |
| Postcode district | IV4 |
| Dialling code | 01463 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
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Beauly (pronounced Bewley; a corruption of Beaulieu), is a town of the Scottish county of Highland, on the River Beauly, 10 miles west of Inverness by the Far North railway line. Its population was measured as 855 in 1901. The town is now within the Highland council area.
History
Its chief interest is the beautiful remains of Beauly Priory, or the Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin and John the Baptist, founded in 1230 by John Bisset of the Aird, for Valliscaulian monks (Historic Scotland). At the Reformation the buildings (except the church, now a ruin) passed into the possession of Lord Lovat. On the right bank of the river is the site of Lovat Castle, which once belonged to the Bissets, but was presented by James VI, to Hugh Fraser and afterwards demolished. To the south-east is the church of Kirkhill containing the vault of the Lovats as well as a number of septs of the Mackenzies, including Seaforth and Mackenzies of Gairloch.
Beaufort Castle - Three miles south of Beauly is Beaufort Castle, the chief seat of the Lovats, a fine modern mansion in the Scottish baronial style. It occupies the site of a fortress erected in the time of Alexander II., which was besieged in 1303 by Edward I. This was replaced by several castles in succession, of which one, Castle Dounie ,was taken by Oliver Cromwell and burned by Prince William, Duke of Cumberland in 1746, the conflagration being witnessed from a neighbouring hill by Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, before his capture on Loch Morar.
The previous Lord Lovat sold the castle to Ann Gloag of the Stagecoach Group to pay off debts. The land around Beauly is fertile and the town historically traded in coal, timber, lime, grain and fish.
Archaeology
Balblair Cist - The remains of three sandstone slabs with carved decoration were discovered intact during the excavation by Headland Archaeology of the heavily denuded remains of a Bronze Age burial cairn at Balblair. [3] Balblair lies at the mouth of Strathglass, 2km to the south-west of Beauly. The cairn was approximately 20 metres in diameter and survived to a maximum height of 1metre. It contained a partially destroyed stone cist at its centre. This was constructed on three sides from sandstone slabs, some of which were decorated, with a more substantial headstone of schist.
There were two examples of simple shallow, pecked cup and ring mark but one slab was far more intricately decorated. On this slab there is a perforation – worked from both faces – and a cup mark of similar radius. Most intriguing was a deeply scored pattern for which there are no regional parallels. Both the perforations and the weathering on both sides of the decorated side slabs of the cist suggest that both stones were once freestanding or open to the elements; their subsequent incorporation into the cist has almost certainly preserved the apparent freshness of the decoration in any case. The perforations and large cups are perhaps of later Neolithic date and may have been reused; smaller motifs, shallow cupmarks for example, are not uncommon in Bronze Age cists. There are no known direct parallels for the incised curvilinear design from Scotland or indeed with any other recorded megalithic art in the British Isles but there is a passing similarity to designs on the exterior of the main tomb at Knowth in Ireland.
Shinty
The town is famous for its shinty team, Beauly Shinty Club, who have won the Camanachd Cup three times and have been World Champions once.
See also
References
- ^ "Comparative Population Profile: Beauly Locality". Scotland's Census Results Online. 2001-04-29. Retrieved 2008-08-31.
- ^ http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data
- ^ Dutton, A., Clapperto, K. and S. Carter (2007). ‘Rock art from a Bronze Age burial at Balblair, near Inverness.’ ‘’Proceedings of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries’’ 137, pp. 117-136
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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