Edderton

Human settlement in Scotland

Edderton

* Scottish Gaelic: Eadardan

Clach Biorach (The Pointed Stone). A Bronze-age stone with much later Pictish carvings.

Edderton

Location within the Ross and Cromarty area

Population| 388
OS grid reference| NH712844
Council area|

* Highland

Country| Scotland
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| Tain
Postcode district| IV19 1
Police| Scotland
Fire| Scottish
Ambulance| Scottish
UK Parliament|

* Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross

Scottish Parliament|

* Caithness, Sutherland and Ross

List of places

Scotland

57°49′52″N 4°10′13″W﻿ / ﻿57.83114°N 4.17026°W﻿ / 57.83114; -4.17026
One side of the Edderton cross slab, which lies in the old village church.

Edderton (Scottish Gaelic: Eadardan) is a village near Tain, lying on the shores of the Dornoch Firth, Easter Ross and is in the Highland council area of Scotland.[1][2] It has approximately 388 inhabitants. It is the location of the Balblair Distillery, and of the Edderton Cross Slab, a Class III Pictish stone, which lies in the old churchyard of the village. A quarter of a mile outside the town lies another stone, the Clach Biorach, a Class I Pictish stone.

The former Ardmore House was a home of the chiefs of clan Ross.[3]

Balblair distillery off Station Road, Edderton, officially dates back to 1790 (but was distilling before then): in 1846, it was recorded that it consumed 120 bushels of malt weekly, producing 240 gallons of whisky, of very high repute.[4] The distillery and village were served by the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway from 1864 until Edderton railway station closed in 1960.

## References

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1. ^ "Edderton". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
2. ^ Microsoft; Nokia. "Edderton" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
3. ^ "Ardmore House". Tain Museum. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
4. ^ "Eaglesfield - Edenton Pages 349-361 A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland". British History Online. S Lewis, London 1846. Retrieved 28 November 2022.

## External links

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* Edderton.com

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