Allanfearn
Allanfearn is a small settlement, it lies 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland, within the Scottish council area of Highland.
Allanfearn is a small settlement, it lies 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland, within the Scottish council area of Highland.
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Worth seeing in and around Allanfearn
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Castle Stuart
Castle Stuart is a restored tower house on the banks of the Moray Firth, about 6.5 miles northeast of Inverness. The land the castle was built on was granted to the 1st Earl of Moray by his half-sister, Mary, Queen of Scots, following her return to Scotland in 1561.
3.4 km · castle in Highland, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Allanfearn
- Airports
- Aberdeen (ABZ), 121 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 179 km · Glasgow (GLA), 182 km
- Stations
- Allanfearn railway station, 200 m · Castle Stuart Platform railway station, 3.5 km
- Aberdeen → Allanfearn129 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £15–20
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Allanfearn180 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · £23–30
- Glasgow → Allanfearn182 km · quickest by road, 4h 20m · £25–33
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Allanfearn
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Allanfearn. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inChange at Portree for ferries from the Western Isles via Uig.
- Get inCitylink Bus 961 runs from Ullapool, ferry port for Stornoway on Lewis, twice M-Sa and once on Sunday.
- Get aroundThey can usually offer minibuses suitable for groups, and pick up from the airport or Invergordon cruiser terminal for day tours.
- Go nextThe most accessible part from Inverness is Cairngorm mountain itself above Aviemore, a ski resort with a funicular railway.
- Go nextIf you get all the way to Thurso you can take a ferry to the Orkneys, and from there to Shetland.
From Wikivoyage: Inverness, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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