Dundonnell
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| OS grid reference | [[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] NH094877] |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GARVE |
| Postcode district | IV23 2 |
| Dialling code | 01854 |
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| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
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Dundonnell (Gaelic: Achadh Dà Dhòmhnaill) is a village in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland,[1] on the south side of Little Loch Broom and at the foot of An Teallach, right at the north of the area commonly known as the "Great Wilderness". It is situated on the A832 road, 30 miles (48 km) east of Gairloch and 13.4 miles (21.6 km) west of Braemore Junction.
Dundonnell gives its name to the Dundonnell River, which flows into Little Loch Broom at its estuary just north-west of the village.
There is an independent youth hostel, a farm and a hotel. Many semi-wild sheep roam the area, which is the most inland point of the loch. The Ardessie Falls pour into the loch nearby. Local wildlife includes cormorants, lesser black-backed gulls and song thrushes.
Dundonnell estate
The 33,000-acre Dundonnell estate was bought by the English lyricist Sir Tim Rice in 1998. In 2004, his wife, Lady Jane Rice, contacted the conservationist Roy Dennis about the possibility of re-estabishing red squirrels in the estate's woodlands. A feasibility study undertaken by Dennis in 2005 concluded that the woodland provided a suitable habitat for squirrels. A translocation project was approved by Scottish Natural Heritage in 2007 and a programme of releases was taken forward in 2009 by Jane Rice, the estate's keeper, Alasdair Macdonald, and the Highland Red Squirrel Group, using squirrels trapped at locations in Badenoch, Strathspey, Moray, Nairn and Inverness.[2]
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References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dundonnell". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ^ Dennis, Roy (2022), Restoring the Wild: Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways, William Collins, London, pp. 181 - 196, Template:Isbn
