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Location:
Europe,
United Kingdom, Inverness
Category:
City
view - Famous Landmark
Description:
View of the Highland House
of Fraser and Inverness Castle
Location Information:
Inverness is a city in northern
Scotland. The city is the
administrative centre for the
Highland council area, and is
promoted as the capital of the
Highlands of Scotland. The city lies
near the site of the 18th century
Battle of Culloden[4] and at the
northeastern extremity of the Great
Glen (An Gleann Mòr), where the
River Ness enters the
Inverness/Moray Firth making it a
natural hub for various transport
links. It is the northernmost city
in the United Kingdom. A settlement
was established by the 6th century
with the first royal charter being
granted by King David I in the 12th
century.
The population of Inverness
increased by over 10% from 1991-2001
and from 1997-2007 with an estimated
population in 2006 of 54,000. (This
figure of 54,000 is made up of the
population of the census
administrative area known as
Inverness which was estimated at
46,100 plus the estimated 7,900
people living in the immediately
adjacent urban settlement of the
Culloden census administrative area
- an area which covers Westhill,
Smithton and Balloch as well as
Culloden.) The city is forecast to
grow by approximately 40% over the
next two decades. Inverness is
Europe's fastest growing city and
ranked fifth out of 189 British
cities for its quality of life, the
highest of any Scottish city.[8]
Inverness is twinned with one German
city, Augsburg and two French towns,
La Baule and Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
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