Alness
| Alness Gaelic: Alanais | |
| Ross-shire | |
|---|---|
 Alness High Street | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NH6569 |
| Location: | 57°41’42"N, 4°15’29"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 3,338 (2001) |
| Post town: | Alness |
| Postcode: | IV17 |
| Dialling code: | 01349 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Highland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross |
Alness is a town in Ross-shire, in Easter Ross near the Cromarty Firth. It stands on the River Averon, the old town on the western bank and Roskeen on the east, which parts are two separate parishes.
The town of Invergordon lies to the east and the village of Evanton to the south west.
Across the Firth lies the tiny hamlet of Alnessferry, in Cromartyshire. There is no ferry between them today.
Churches
The two parishes of Alness and Rosskeen were once in different presbyteries of the Church of Scotland. Now in one, they maintain discrete churches.
Alness has several churches:
- Church of Scotland:
- Alness Parish Church
- Roskeen Parish Church
- Free Church: Rosskeen Free Church of Scotland
- Baptist: Alness Baptist Church
- Independent Evangelical: Calvary Church
History
In September 1715 during the '15 Rebellion, the Skirmish of Alness was fought between Jacobite clans including the MacKenzies and MacDonalds under the Earl of Seaforth, and the loyalist Munros, Rosses and MacKays under John Gordon, 16th Earl of Sutherland. The Jacobites drove their opponents over Struie to Bonar.[1]
For the middle part of the twentieth century there was a seaplane base, RAF Alness.
Outside links
- Alness.com - Community website commissioned by the Alness Community Association
- Alness - PastPresent history site
- Alness on Undiscovered Scotland
References
- ↑ Site Record for Alness. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/13775/.