Tourist Guide Ullapool
Ullapool is a charming fishing village on the northwestern coast of Scotland between Poolewe and Lochinver. It is located on the shores of Lochbroom about 1 hour North of Loch Ness and Inverness airport. This makes it the perfect base for trips to Ross-shire, Cromarty, Sutherland, The Black Isle, Inverness (where the nearest Air, Rail and Bus Links are) and the Highlands in general.
Just like in most of the Highlands, winters can be particularly harsh and windy. Ullapool's whiteness and the regularity of its design and layout, however, can be appreciated in any weather condition. The town, in fact, was designed and built in 1788 by famous railway architect Thomas Telford and the British Fisheries Society.
Ullapool grew during the herring-fishing boom of the late 18th, early 19th Century. This peaked and then declined from the 1830s onwards.
It took a couple more decades for the long distance fishing fleets from eastern
Scotland and beyond to discover the benefits of Ullapool as a safe anchorage
on the western side of the country. Since then fishing has remained at the very
heart of the town’s economy.
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