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Invermoriston, a hamlet in Urquhart and Glenmoriston parish, Inverness-shire, at the mouth of Glenmoriston, on the NW side of Loch Ness, 7 miles NNE of Fort Augustus. It has a post office (Glenmoriston), with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments, an inn, and a public school. Invermoriston House is an old but modernised mansion, the seat of Ian Robert James Murray Grant, Esq. of Glenmoriston (b. 1860; suc. 1868), whose ancestor got a charter of the estate in 1509, and who holds 74, 646 acres in the shire, valued at £4955 per annum. It was at Invermoriston, in 1773, that Dr Johnson first conceived the thought of his tour to the Hebrides.—Ord. Sur., sh. 73, 1878.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Inverness Shire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Invermoriston |
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