Stoer ( gd, An Stòr) is a crofting township in the parish of
Assynt
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,
Sutherland
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, in the
Highlands
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of Scotland and in the council area of
Highland
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. It is located about five miles north of the village of
Lochinver
Lochinver (''Loch an Inbhir'' in Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic) is a village that is located at the head of the sea loch Loch Inver, on the coast in the Assynt district of Sutherland, Scottish Highlands, Highland, Scotland. A few miles northeast is Loc ...
.
Norman McLeod, a presbyterian minister who led a group of emigrants to
Nova Scotia
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and
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, came from Stoer.
The
Old Man of Stoer, a
sea stack
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, and the lighthouse on
Stoer Head
Stoer Head (Rubha Stoer in Scots Gaelic) is a point of land north of Lochinver and the township of Stoer in Sutherland, NW Scotland. The lighthouse on the point marks the northern entrance to The Minch
The Minch ( gd, An Cuan Sgitheanach, ...
are directly accessible from Stoer, being less than 4 miles north/north west of the village.
Rev
Farquhar Matheson
Farquhar Matheson was a Scottish minister, who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1939.''Annals of the Free Church of Scotland, 1930 to 1939''
Life
In 1920 he became minister of the Free Church in Assynt ...
, minister of the parish from 1920, served as
Moderator of the General Assembly
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of the Free Church of Scotland in 1939.
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Populated places in Sutherland