Edderton

Edderton
Scottish Gaelic: *Eadardan*
Edderton Scottish Gaelic: Eadardan;
	; Clach Biorach (The Pointed Stone). A Bronze-age stone with much later Pictish carvings.
	Edderton Location within the Ross and Cromarty area
Population	388
OS grid reference	NH712844
Council area	Highland;
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Tain
Postcode district	IV19 1
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross;
Scottish Parliament	Caithness, Sutherland and Ross;
	List of places UK Scotland 57°49′52″N 4°10′13″W / 57.83114°N 4.17026°WCoordinates: 57°49′52″N 4°10′13″W / 57.83114°N 4.17026°W

One side of the Edderton cross slab, which lies in the old village church.

Edderton (Scottish Gaelic: Eadardan) is a village near Tain, lying on the shores of the Dornoch Firth, Easter Ross and is in the Highland council area of Scotland.^[1]^[2] It has approximately 388 inhabitants. It is the location of the Balblair Distillery, and of the Edderton Cross Slab, a Class III Pictish stone, which lies in the old churchyard of the village. A quarter of a mile outside the town lies another stone, the Clach Biorach, a Class I Pictish stone.

References

^ "Edderton". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
^ Microsoft; Nokia (23 March 2017). "Edderton" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved 23 March 2017.

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