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Muir of Ord Locations

Locations

This page aims to guide you towards the many older residential properties within the village and just beyond its boundaries.

Using the main street names, we have highlighted the properties by their original names, if known.

Corrie Road

In this 1950’s Aerial photograph we can make out a few of the resedential properties, in the bottom left hand corne, of Corrie Road. The road led up to various small crofts on the hillside that runs parallel to the Great North Road, overlooking the golf course and where the once great Trysts used to take place.

Below you can read nore on the residential properties that remain linked with the village. To list the crofts would become too numerous.

Attribution: not recorded or unknown

towards the Black isle Road

Looking East from outside Forbes Bakery,with the strange gable end, dates this to before the fire of 1935.

Building on left is Tarradale Hotel on the Black Isle Road.

To read more about the older residential buildings on the Black isle Road, click on the names below:

Attribution: not recorded or unknown

Great North Road

Great North Road runs from the Muir of Ord Indsutrial estate to the outskirts of the village in the North.

It forms part of what was the old A9 and is now named the A862.

Many of the buildings on the village high street continue to be referred to by their bynames. Usually named after the first families who either built, owned or worked there over the years.

Attribution: unknown

Highfield House and Estate

On the Northern edge of the village on the A862 the Highfield estate once stood. Sadly, the main house was destroyed by fire, however there are still some buildings that once belonged to the estate, visible today.

Click on the names below for more information.

Attribution: unknown

Main Street, Muir of Ord c1910

Main Street, Muir of Ord. l.h.s.: A Robertson, Butcher. Next: J. (?). r.h.s.: Tarradale Hotel, proprietor Donald Macleod. Beyond horse and cart: ?Willox? Ross.

Postcard, dated 8 July 1910 and addressed to Mrs Mackenzie, 10 Ardross Place, Inverness, reads: Tarradale Hotel. My Dear Cousin, Just a PC. Hoping you are well. I would have written you sooner but we are very busy just now. How is your mother keeping. I seen (sic) A. Holmes last week and they are all in their usual. Father had a poisoned hand but is better now. Love from A Fraser.

This area is also known as the Cross Roads, where the Black Isle Road meets with the Great North Road, coming from the left and continuing over the bridge. The road to the right is Seaforth Road.