Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Scotland
Detourmap lists 922 places in Scotland, United Kingdom, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Ben Nevis. 673 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 922
- Oldest
- Skara Brae 3179 BC
- Little known
- 673 of 922
- Share of United Kingdom
- 30%
Scotland 922
The 120 best known of 922. The other 802 are on the map and on the United Kingdom pages.
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2.Loch Ness
Nature · Iconic
Lake in Highland, Scotland, UK, outflows via Loch Dochfour to the River Ness and Caledonian Canal
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3.Isle of Skye
Nature · Iconic
Largest and most northerly large island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland
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8.Islay
Nature · Renowned
Southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
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10.Isle of Mull
Nature · Renowned
Second-largest Inner Hebrides island (after Skye) off the west coast of Scotland
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17.Great Glen
Nature · Renowned
100km length valley bisecting Highland, Scotland, UK, between Inverness and Fort William
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29.Rùm
Nature · Notable
Island in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland, UK, one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides
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36.Cairngorms National Park
Nature · 21st century · Notable
National park in Scotland, United Kingdom
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45.Maes Howe
Archaeological · Notable
Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland
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46.Ring of Brodgar
Archaeological · Notable
Neolithic henge and stone circle on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland
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49.Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park
Nature · 21st century · Notable
National park in Scotland
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50.Loch Morar
Nature · Notable
Freshwater loch in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland, UK, outflows at its west to the River Morar
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52.Loch Tay
Nature · Notable
Lake in Perth and Kinross, and Stirling, Scotland, UK, outflows east to River Tay
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54.Holyrood Abbey
Archaeological · 12th century · Notable
Monastery ruins in Holyrood, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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60.Ben Macdui
Nature · Notable
Mountain on the Aberseendshire and Moray border, Scotland; second highest mountain in the UK
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66.Loch Lochy
Nature · Notable
Freshwater lake in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland, UK, outflows from the south to River Lochy and the Caledonian Canal
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71.Inveraray Castle
Archaeological · 18th century · Notable
Country house near Inveraray in the county of Argyll, in western Scotland
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72.Loch Rannoch
Nature · Notable
Lake in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK, outflows to the River Tummel
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76.Loch Katrine
Nature · Notable
Freshwater lake and reservoir in Stirling, Scotland, UK, outflows to Achray Water and to Glengyle Water
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77.Loch Leven
Nature · Notable
Lake at Kinross, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK, outflows to River Leven
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79.Fortingall Yew
Nature · Notable
Tree in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK; one of the world's oldest European yews
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80.Loch Oich
Nature · Notable
Lake in Highland, Scotland, UK, on the Caledonian Canal and outflowing north-north-east to River Oich
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81.Loch Ericht
Nature · Notable
Lake in Perth and Kinross, and Highland, Scotland, UK, outflows to River Ericht
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83.Loch Shiel
Nature · Notable
Freshwater loch in Ardnamurchan, West Highlands of Scotland, UK, outflows to the River Shiel
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87.Central Lowlands
Nature · Notable
Geologically defined area of relatively low-lying land in southern Scotland
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103.Holy Island
Nature · Notable
Island in the Firth of Clyde, North Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
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107.Loch Assynt
Nature · Notable
Lake in Highland, Scotland, UK, outflows to the River Inver and Loch na Garbh Uidhe
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109.Graemsay
Nature · Notable
Island in the western approaches to Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
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112.West Burra
Nature · Notable
One of the Scalloway Islands, a subgroup of the Shetland Islands in Scotland.
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118.Vementry
Nature · Notable
An uninhabited Scottish island in Shetland on the north side of the West Mainland, lying south of Muckle Roe
Elsewhere in United Kingdom
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Scotland?
Ben Nevis. Highest mountain of Great Britain. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Scotland?
922: 621 nature & landscapes and 301 archaeological & historic sites. 673 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Scotland?
Skara Brae, dated to 3179 BC. 24 of the 922 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Scotland here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Scotland if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Scotland is a first-level division of United Kingdom, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.