Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Carbost

Carbost, a village in Bracadale parish, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, at the head of Loch Harport, 23 miles WNW of Broadford. It has a post office, with money order. and savings' bank departments, a distillery, and a public school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bracadale ScoP       Inverness Shire ScoCnty
Place: Carbost

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