Plockton, Ross-shire, Highland - Dixon postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  Plockton, Ross-shire [Highland region]
• Publisher: J Arthur Dixon (PRO/22231)
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Plockton (Scottish Gaelic: Am Ploc/Ploc Loch Aillse) is a village in the Highlands of Scotland in the county of Ross and Cromarty with a population of 378.^[1]

Plockton is a settlement on the shores of Loch Carron. It faces east, away from the prevailing winds, which together with the North Atlantic Drift gives it a mild climate allowing the Cordyline australis palm or cabbage tree to prosper.

Most of the houses date from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It was a planned community based on fishing in an attempt to stem the tide of emigration from the Highlands. The Church of Scotland in the village (also used by the Free Church of Scotland) was designed by Thomas Telford ^[2].

An unconfirmed source offers explanation for the origin of Plockton’s name. According to this source there was a period when Shoreline, as Plockton was originally known, was home to an unusual wave of girl child births for a decade. As a result the village had a large population of girls between the ages of 10 and 18 – the age in which girls typically received deportment lessons. As part of these lesson the girls would carry books on their heads (reportedly the Bible, a book on deportment training and Mrs. Bracken’s cookbook). Travellers through the village would hear the “plock” of these books falling off the girls’ heads onto the floor, and so the village became known as “Plock Town” or later Plockton.^{[citation needed]}

The village is a tourist resort. The television series Hamish Macbeth, starring Robert Carlyle, was filmed there, substituting for the fictional Lochdubh^[3]. Plockton was also used for various scenes in the film The Wicker Man^[4] and the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries television series.^{[citation needed]}