Lòn Gorm

Lake, Pool, Pond, Freshwater Marsh in Inverness-shire

Scotland

Lòn Gorm

BEA Vickers Viscount at Benbecula Airfield Credit: Alan Reid

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Lòn Gorm Images

Images are sourced within 2km of 57.481794/-7.340142 or Grid Reference NF8056. Thanks to Geograph Open Source API. All images are credited.

BEA Vickers Viscount at Benbecula Airfield

Alan Reid

Marestail (Hippuris vulgaris)

A plant that always grows in water, for once conveniently close enough to the land to be photographed.

Anne Burgess

Irish Lady's-tresses (Spiranthes romanzoffiana)

A member of the orchid family, with a very western distribution.

Anne Burgess

DÃ¹n Buidhe

The 'yellow fort' is on a peninsula, almost an islet, in Loch Dùn Mhurchaidh.

Anne Burgess

Boulder Dyke

On a peninsula in Loch Dùn Mhurchaidh.

Anne Burgess

Ragged Robin (Silene flos-cuculi)

Previously known as Lychnis flos-cuculi.

Anne Burgess

Dun Buidhe

The dun is situated on the further island, and although there's a lot of stones around it, one would be hard pressed to identify anything of a built nature.

Gordon Hatton

Control tower and apron, Benbecula Airport

David Martin

Uachdar: postbox № HS6 29

This small postbox is comfortably within the HS7 postcode district (Benbecula), but has an HS6 (North Uist) number. It is emptied at 2pm on weekdays and at 9:45am on Saturdays.

Chris Downer

Beach, Baile a' Mhanaich

The beach beside the airport.

Richard Webb

Sea defences, Benbecula Airport

The dunes have been firmed up on the airport perimeter. The map suggests that coastal erosion is in progress here.

Richard Webb

A865 south of Loch na Smalaig, Benbecula

The A865 runs through the centre of the loch-laced flat isle of Benbecula. The large dark green shed or barn seen on the right is just beyond the track to Ardgarbh, and must be quite recent as it does not appear on Google's Streetview (see Link

) Note: The maps show "Shieling" just south of this point, but that simply means roughly constructed hut or pasture for cattle, and is not a placename.

Rob Farrow

Loch na Smalaig

Benbecula doesn't get rave reviews in most of the guidebooks, which generally urge the visitor on to the delights of the Uists to north and south. But on a beautiful sunny day like this, the inky blue lochs and lochans have a distinct charm. The house on the left is Ardgarbh with its track forming the southern border of the loch.

Rob Farrow

Loch Olabhat

A shallow loch, almost at sea level and with numerous small islands. Looking towards the distinctive profile of Eabhal on North Uist.

Gordon Hatton

Loch Olabhat

An unpleasantly wet track leads from the road down to this reedy loch.

Gordon Hatton

Gramsdale: postbox № HS6 40 and phone

One of several postboxes which seem to have a prefix misnomer - being on Benbecula, this box is actually in the HS7, not HS6, postcode district. It stands alongside a red telephone box and this may be evidence that the post office, which opened in the summer of 1935 and closed on 5 October 1974, was in the adjacent house.

Chris Downer