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Kilmuir & Logie Easter
Kilmuir and Logie Easter Community Council covers the geographical area of the former parishes of Kilmuir Easter and Logie Easter, the area covered by the present day Kilmuir and Logie Easter Parish Church. It comprises the villages and rural areas of Milton, Kildary, Barbaraville, Balintraid, Delny, Scotsburn, Lamington, Logie Hill, Newfield, and Arabella. Due to the industrial development of the area in the 1970s, with the construction of the Invergordon Aluminium Smelter and the Nigg Oil Construction Yard, the population of the area grew significantly, with the village of Milton in particular being considerably expanded.
Where 5 schools served the area a century ago, there is now one school, Milton Primary School, with secondary education being provided by the nearby Invergordon and Tain Academies. The major employers in the area are Ken’s Garage at Kildary, together with the various local farms, though they now employ a fraction of their previous work force. There are four small shops scattered around the distict, a bark factory, a workshop making pine furniture, and various home-based enterprises, but otherwise most of the population travels to work outside the area.
In the early 1900s there were two churches for each of the Church of Scotland, the United Free Church of Scotland, and the Free Church of Scotland. Now there is only the one Church of Scotland congregation, which uses two buildings month about, and is a significant force in community life.
Milton
village, as the largest population centre, besides having the primary
school, has a bowling club and Milton Inn,
one of two
pubs
in the area, the other being the Shandwick Inn. It also has a Community
House, which is a major centre for a wide range of community activities,
ranging from ante-natal classes through various tool lending schemes
and a second hand clothes rack to computer classes and an after-school
club.
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Visitor Information |
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Fearn Peninsula Partnership Representative: George Dobbie Tel: 01349 854220.
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Accommodation |
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10 Ross Crescent (B&B) (Milton) |
01862 842380 |
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Delny
House Hotel (Delny) |
01862 842678 |
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Backpackers Hostel (Balintraid House - Balintraid) |
01349 854446 or 07917710279 |
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Caravan Club Site (Station House - Barbaraville) |
01862 842736 |
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Places of Interest |
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Scotsburn-Strathrory Drove Road |
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Route Map |
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Local Services |
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Kildary Post Office and Balnagown Stores (Kildary) |
01862 842229 |
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Milton Stores (Drovers Way - Milton) |
01862 842344 |
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Ken's Garage (Kildary) |
01862 842266 |
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Community House (12 Munro Crescent - Milton) |
01862 842499 |
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Courtney’s
Taxis |
01862 842051 or 0771 4089950 |
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Kilmuir and Logie Easter Church |
01862 842280 |
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Old School Pine (Polnicol) |
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Shandwick Inn (Kildary) |
01862 842250 |
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Milton Inn (Milton) |
01862 842647 |
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Mull Hall Residential Home |
01862 842308 |
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| Milton
Primary School |
01862 842537 |
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Polnicol Hall |
01862 842471 |
Anna Ross |
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Recreation |
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Milton Community Woodlands (Milton) |
01862 863238 |
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Milton Bowling Club (Milton) |
01862 842229 |
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Milton Multi-Purpose Sports Area |
01862 842499 |
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Kildary
Angling Club |
01862 832494 |
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Aldie Burn (Lamington) |
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Forestry
Commission
Scotland |
01862 810359 |
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Countryside
Ranger |
01862 724312 |
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