Plockton, Wester Ross, Highland - Whiteholme postcard, Glenelg pmk 1976

• Postcard

   

• Picture / Image:  Plockton, Wester Ross [Highland Region] 
• Publisher: 'Hail Caledonia' by Whiteholme of Dundee
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  6&half p turquoise Scottish regional
• Postmark(s): Glenelg Kyle, Ross-shire 1976 cds
• Sent to:  Beccles, Suffolk
• Notes / condition: 

Please ask if you need any other information and I will do the best I can to answer.

Image may be low res for illustrative purposes - if you need a higher definition image then please contact me and I may be able to send one. No cards have been trimmed (unless stated).

------------------------------------------------

Postage & Packing:

Postage and packing charge should be showing for your location (contact if not sure).

No additional charges for more than one postcard. You can buy as many postcards from me as you like and you will just pay the fee above once. Please wait for combined invoice. (If buying postcards with other things such as books, please contact or wait for invoice before paying).

Payment Methods:

UK - PayPal, Cheque (from UK bank) or postal order

Outside UK: PayPal ONLY (unless otherwise stated) please.   NO non-UK currency checks or money orders (sorry).

NOTE: All postcards are sent in brand new stiffened envelopes which I have bought for the task. These are specially made to protect postcards and you may be able to re-use them. In addition there are other costs to sending so the above charge is not just for the stamp!

I will give a full refund if you are not fully satisfied with the postcard.

----------------------------------------------

Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

*************

Plockton (Scottish Gaelic: Am Ploc/Ploc Loch Aillse) is a village in the Highlands of Scotland in Lochalsh, Wester Ross 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 to prosper.

Most of the houses date from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is a planned fishing village on the northern edge of the Lochalsh built ‘when introducing sheep farming in 1814-20 and removing the population from their old hamlets in Glen Garron, founded the villages of Jeantown and Plockton on Loch Carronside’ (Geddes: 1945, pp38)

Some maritime charts including MacKenzie (1776) and Heather (1804) mark the peninsula where the village sits as ‘Plack’, however it generally considered that the village was built on the ‘Ploc’ of Lochalsh, with ‘Ploc’ being understood in Gaelic as pimple or bump (of Lochalsh) sharing this with other places such as the Plock of Kyle and Plocrapool on the Isle of Harris. Its name, in current form, is based upon the Gaelic name referring to the promontory, with the ‘+town’ added to designate it as such in the English language, following the construction of the planned village around 1800.  Over-time the name of village changed to its current contracted form ‘Plockton’.

Situated on a sheltered inlet of Loch Carron, and due to the series of palm (New Zealand cabbage palm) trees which have dominated Harbour Street since the 1960s, Plockton has a distinctive ‘sub-tropical appearance’ (Nicholson: 1975).  

The Church of Scotland in the village (also used by the Free Church of Scotland) was designed by Thomas Telford [2].