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limey · 10-15-2015, 02:25 PM

Well. That was a thread killer wasn't it?
The Applecross peninsula is about fifteen miles north to south and eight or nine east to west. There are around a hundred (permanent) households, some with just one inhabitant. I'm not sure how many holiday homes/letting cottages there are.
There is a primary school (for ages four to eleven) but at age eleven the kids have to go to secondary school in Plockton. This would be a relatively short sea journey from Toscaig pier that I photographed a while back, but there is no ferry service. It is a one hour forty minute drive each way so just about all of the Applecross kids therefore board there through the week in a school hostel.
There is a reasonably well-stocked general store on the peninsula, but the nearest town with a supermarket of any size is Dingwall or Inverness - a round trip of 165 miles or so. Tesco (a UK supermarket) has just begun delivering to Applecross, a development which the local shop is watching with trepidation.
There is a doctor resident on the peninsula. She is on call 24/7 by default. Mobile phone coverage is atrocious, so you may not be able to reach her first go if she is out. The nearest hospital is on Skye. Two and a half hours away. There is a small fire station not far from our holiday cottage. If it is like Arran, the fireman are all volunteers.
I didn't ask how many policemen there are

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10-15-2015, 02:25 PM	#53
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Toscaig, Applecross peninsula, NW Scotland Well. That was a thread killer wasn't it? The Applecross peninsula is about fifteen miles north to south and eight or nine east to west. There are around a hundred (permanent) households, some with just one inhabitant. I'm not sure how many holiday homes/letting cottages there are. There is a primary school (for ages four to eleven) but at age eleven the kids have to go to secondary school in Plockton. This would be a relatively short sea journey from Toscaig pier that I photographed a while back, but there is no ferry service. It is a one hour forty minute drive each way so just about all of the Applecross kids therefore board there through the week in a school hostel. There is a reasonably well-stocked general store on the peninsula, but the nearest town with a supermarket of any size is Dingwall or Inverness - a round trip of 165 miles or so. Tesco (a UK supermarket) has just begun delivering to Applecross, a development which the local shop is watching with trepidation. There is a doctor resident on the peninsula. She is on call 24/7 by default. Mobile phone coverage is atrocious, so you may not be able to reach her first go if she is out. The nearest hospital is on Skye. Two and a half hours away. There is a small fire station not far from our holiday cottage. If it is like Arran, the fireman are all volunteers. I didn't ask how many policemen there are Sent by thought transference __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of Last edited by limey; 10-15-2015 at 02:46 PM.