Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ardavasar or Ardvarsar

Ardavasar or Ardvarsar, a hamlet in the SE of the Isle of Skye, on a small bay of its own name on the Sound of Sleat, about 6 miles ENE of the Point of Sleat and 17 S of Broadford. It has a post office under Broadford. A small headland flanks its bay, and is the ordinary landing-place from Arasaig.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Inverness Shire ScoCnty
Place names: ARDAVASAR     |     ARDAVASAR OR ARDVARSAR     |     ARDVARSAR
Place: Ardavasar

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