Beauly

Beauly (Gaelic: A ' Mhanachainn ) is a small town with about 1100 inhabitants in Scotland. It is in the Council Area Highland, about 15 kilometers west of Inverness at the mouth of the River Beauly Beauly Firth in the.

History

Beauly developed around the Beauly Priory, founded in 1230. Founder was Sir John Bisset, a follower of King Alexander II. Monastery was one of three that occupied a native of France Order of Valliscaulianer in Scotland. The Valliscaulianer went in the 18th century to the Cistercian Order. They named the monastery Prioratus de Bello Loco, so beautiful monastery on the place, which developed the modern place name. The land south of Beauly belonged to the Clan Fraser, whose leader, Lord Lovat, a few years ago in Beaufort Castle, about five kilometers south of Beauly, resided. Also influential was the Clan Mackenzie of Kintail, the land belonged to the north of Beauly. Both clans presented multiple priors of Beauly.

The monastery was 1510 by the Valliscaulianern to the Cistercians. Sub-Prior, Robert Reid, who was also Bishop of Orkney, experienced the Abbey during the reign of Mary Queen of Scots a final flowering. The by John Knox in Scotland promoted Reformation made ​​from 1560 for the decline of the abbey in 1585 left the last monks of the monastery. The troops of Oliver Cromwell used the building in 1652 as a quarry for the construction of fortifications in Inverness. The remaining ruins of the monastery church is looked after by Historic Scotland.

Beauly was on the last ferry across the River Beauly before its confluence with the Beauly Firth and was therefore an important transportation hub. Thomas Telford Built in 1814 a first bridge across the river. Until the Kessock Bridge over the Beauly Firth in the course of the construction of the A9, the entire transit took place in the northern Highlands through the town. Since the construction of the Far North Line in 1862 Beauly owned railway connection. The station was closed in 1960 for passenger services, since 2002 the trains of the Far North and the Kyle of Lochalsh Line back in Beauly.

Infrastructure

Beauly is due to its convenient location a popular base for exploring the Highlands, especially in the west Glen Affric lying. The town has several hotels and restaurants, various shops, a primary school and churches of the Church of Scotland, the Free Church of Scotland and the Catholic Church.

Next to the train station for Inverness, Dingwall, Kyle of Lochalsh and Thurso and Wick has bus connections to Cannich Beauly, Muir of Ord, Inverness. In road traffic, Beauly is on the A862 to reach (the former A9) from Inverness via Beauly and Muir of Ord by Dingwall, the A831 and the A833 Cannich of Drumnadrochit.

Personalities

• Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat ( 1911-1995 )