Beauly

Coordinates: 57°29′05″N 4°27′43″W / 57.484662°N 4.462035°W / 57.484662; -4.462035
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Beauly
Beauly Square
Beauly is located in Highland
Beauly
Beauly
Beauly is located in Inverness area
Beauly
Beauly
Location within the Highland council area
Beauly is located in Highland
Beauly
Beauly
Beauly (Highland)
Population1,400 (2020)[4]
OS grid referenceNH525465
Community council
Council area
Lieutenancy area
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBeauly
Postcode districtIV4
Dialling code01463
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57°29′05″N 4°27′43″W / 57.484662°N 4.462035°W / 57.484662; -4.462035

Beauly (

County of Inverness
.

The land around Beauly is fertile - historically corn was grown extensively[6] and more recently fruit has successfully been farmed.[7] The village historically traded in coal, timber, lime, grain, and fish.[8]

History

Arms of the Community Council

Early years

Beauly is the site of the

Valliscaulian monks. Following the Reformation, the buildings (except for the church, which is now a ruin) passed into the possession of Lord Lovat
.

Local tradition has it that Mary, Queen of Scots, once visited Beauly and had exclaimed: "Ç'est un beau lieu", whereby came the name Beauly. Queen Mary, in 1563, hunted and took her summer journeys in the west and southwest of Scotland; but her brother James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, came north to Inverness late in the autumn, with his two brothers, to hold courts and consolidate his power, and there first put into execution the new Act against witchcraft, sorcery, and necromancy, by burning two old women as witches.[citation needed]

It was probably in 1564 that Queen Mary paid that visit to Beauly Priory, the memory of which is preserved in local tradition. She left

Chanonry
of Ross. Mr Chalmers suggests, with considerable probability, that her object was to inquire into the nature and value of the earldom of Ross, which she meant to settle upon Darnley, whom she had determined to marry, and she would naturally go to Dingwall, which was the head of the earldom, the castle of Dingwall being its manor-place. Going to Dingwall from Inverness, she must have passed by Beauly; and it was therefore, probably, on a bright morning in August 1564 that she opened the window at the prior’s house, and looking out on the gardens, eulogised the beauty of the spot and the appropriateness of its name.
better source needed
]

Beauly is also the site of

James VI, to Hugh Fraser, 5th Lord Lovat, and later demolished.[8]

The population of Beauly was 855 in 1901.[8]

Recent history

In 1994 Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat sold Beaufort castle to Ann Gloag (director of the Stagecoach Group) to pay off debts.[10]

In 2002, the Beauly railway station, built in 1862 and closed in 1960, was renovated and reopened.

In January 2010, the Scottish government approved controversial plans for a power line upgrade that will begin in Beauly and end in

pylons, ranging in height from 42 to 65 metres (138 to 213 ft).[11] The first part of the transmission circuit (Beauly to Fort Augustus) was switched on in July 2013.[12]

The population of Beauly was 1,126 in 1991, 1,283 in 2001, and 1,365 in 2011.[13]

Governance

Beauly is in the Aird and Loch Ness Ward of the Highland Council.[14][15]

Attractions

Beauly Priory

Beaufort Castle

3 miles (5 km) south of Beauly is

Castle Dounie, was attacked and burned by the forces of Oliver Cromwell in 1650 and razed again by the royal army of Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, in 1746 during the Jacobite Rising. Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, witnessed this latter conflagration of his castle from a neighbouring hill (he then fled and took refuge in the Highlands before his capture on Loch Morar).[8]

Beauly Priory

The extensive ruins of the abbey church of Beauly Priory with funerary monuments (notably including those of the Mackenzie family) are managed by Historic Scotland.[16]

Churches

St Mary's Church, Beauly viewed from the cemetery on the north side.
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church

The large red sandstone church on the north boundary of the village was designed by

Black Watch Regiment Captain Archibald Macrae Chisholm and placed upon a stone column at St. Mary and St. Bean's Church, where it is still treasured and venerated as a relic of the era in which it was used.[19][20]

To the southeast of Beauly is the Church of

Mackenzies, including Seaforth and Mackenzies of Gairloch
.

Sport

The town is known for the Beauly Shinty Club, its shinty team, who have won the Camanachd Cup three times and have been World Champions once.[citation needed]

Notable residents

See also

References

  1. ^ "Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba". Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
  2. ^ Eagle, Andy. "The Online Scots Dictionary". Scots Online. Archived from the original on 13 April 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  3. ^ "List of railway station names in English, Scots and Gaelic". NewsNetScotland. Archived from the original on 22 January 2013.
  4. ^ "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Beauly Community Council (BCC)". www.beaulycc.org. Archived from the original on 11 November 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  6. ^ "A plan of that part of the annexed estate of Lovat lying in the parish of Kilmorack" (PDF). National Archive of Scotland. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Struan Lodge - Beauly". Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  8. ^ a b c d  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Beauly". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 588.
  9. ^ Batten, Edmund Chisholm (1877). The Charters of the Priory of Beauly. pp. 251, 252.
  10. ^ Ross, David (29 August 1995). "Bus company chief buys Lovat castle". Herald Scotland. Archived from the original on 25 December 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  11. ^ a b c "Power line upgrade given go-ahead". BBC News. January 2010. Archived from the original on 22 January 2010. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
  12. ^ "First section of Beauly to Denny power line switched on". BBC. 25 July 2013. Archived from the original on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  13. ^ "Population of Beauly". Archived from the original on 19 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  14. ^ "Aird and Loch Ness Ward". Archived from the original on 19 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  15. ^ "Ward 13 Local Councillors". Archived from the original on 19 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  16. ^ "The Abbey Church of Beauly Priory". Historic Scotland. Archived from the original on 19 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  17. ^ Churches to Visit in Scotland. NMS Publ. Ltd. p. 222.
  18. ^ Blundell, Dom Odo (May 1909). Catholic Highlands of Scotland. Sands & Co. p. 210.
  19. ^ Odo Blundell (1909), The Catholic Highlands of Scotland, Volume I, London, page 202.
  20. ^ "Rev. John Farquharson, Priest of Strathglass", by Colin Chisholm, The Celtic Magazine, Volume 7, 1882, p. 144.

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