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Balintore (from the meaning "The Bleaching Town")
[ is a village near ]Tain
Tain ( ) is a royal burgh and parish in the County of Ross, in the Scottish Highlands, Highlands of Scotland.
Etymology
The name derives from the nearby River Tain, the name of which comes from an Indo-European root meaning 'flow'. The Gaelic n ...
in Easter Ross, Scotland. It is one of three villages on this northern stretch of the Moray Firth
The Moray Firth (; , or ) is a roughly triangular inlet (or firth) of the North Sea, north and east of Inverness, which is in the Highland council area of the north of Scotland.
It is the largest firth in Scotland, stretching from Duncans ...
coastline: Hilton, Balintore, and Shandwick are known collectively as the Seaboard Villages.
An earlier name for Balintore was ''Port an Ab'' ("Abbot's Port"), after Fearn Abbey, the local landowner. Employment was formerly based on fishing. A road was built from Hill of Fearn in 1819, after which fish were shipped from the village, and Balintore Harbour was built in 1890–1896. The three villages were connected by a road in the first decade of the 20th century; Balintore has a post office and several shops.[Jessie Mcdonald and Anne Gordon, ''Down to the Sea: An Account of Life in the Fishing Villages of Hilton, Balintore and Shandwick'', 2nd ed., 1978, ]
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on 15 October 2011. The Seaboard Village Hall, now the Seaboard Centre, is in Balintore and serves as a community centre for the three villages. The original building was erected in 1958 as a memorial to local people killed in the two World Wars, and was replaced in 2002.
John Ross, a missionary who translated the Bible into Korean, is commemorated by a 2007 monument, part of the Seaboard Sculpture Trail, and by the John Ross Visitor Centre, which opened in 2022 in a former church between Balintore and Hilton.
The ''Mermaid of the North'' sculpture, by Steve Hayward of Hilton, was placed in 2007 on Clach Dubh ('Black Rock') on the shore at Balintore. After the original wood and resin sculpture was damaged in a 2012 storm, it was replaced in cast bronze in 2014. It also forms part of the Seaboard Sculpture Trail."Mermaid of the North could be joined by merman"
BBC News, 2 August 2023.
Gallery
File:Balintore_Central.JPG, Central Balintore
File:Harbour, Balintore - geograph.org.uk - 5559852.jpg, Harbour
File:Balintore 2007, aerial - geograph.org.uk - 3146034.jpg, Aerial view
See also
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Balintore F.C.
References
External links
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Populated places in Ross and Cromarty
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