Qualla: Beauly https://qualla.com/beauly en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/z/beauly-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Beauly https://qualla.com/beauly Beauly: Introduction https://qualla.com/beauly/ Photo credit london road, CC BY 2.0. C'est un beau lieu. The story is almost certainly half legend, but it is the kind of legend a village wants to keep. Mary, Queen of Scots, the tradition says, opened a window at the prior's house at Beauly Priory on a bright August morning in 1564, looked out over the gardens that ran down toward the river, and uttered three French words that became this place's name. Beau lieu - beautiful place - became Beauly. The historians who have tried to pin the visit down think she was actually on her way from Inverness to Dingwall to inspect the earldom of Ross, which she intended to bestow on Lord Darnley, the cousin she was about to marry. She did, almost certainly, pass through Beauly. Whether she opened that window and said those words is something the village has chosen, for four centuries now, not to examine too closely.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/z/beauly-wp/gfhz-beauly-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Beauly: The Priory by the River https://qualla.com/beauly/ Photo credit -epsilon-, CC BY 2.0. Long before Mary, there were monks. The Beauly Priory - properly the Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin and John the Baptist - was founded in 1230 by John Byset of the Aird for the Valliscaulian order, an austere French monastic tradition that maintained only three houses in all...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/z/beauly-wp/gfhz-beauly-the-priory-by-the-river.mp3 0:06 2 full Beauly: Castles, Cromwell and Cumberland https://qualla.com/beauly/ Photo credit Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0. Three miles south of the village rises Beaufort Castle, the chief seat of the Lovats. What stands today is a Victorian baronial mansion, but the site has been fortified since the time of Alexander II. Edward I of England besieged the medieval castle here in 1303. Several castles ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/z/beauly-wp/gfhz-beauly-castles-cromwell-and-cumberland.mp3 0:06 3 full Beauly: The Jesuit, the Cup Stone and the Cave https://qualla.com/beauly/ Photo credit Lucas Kendall, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the north edge of the village stands St Mary's Church, a great red sandstone Gothic Revival pile designed by Joseph Aloysius Hansom - the man who also patented the Hansom cab - and paid for by Thomas Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat. It opened on Sunday 13 November 1864, the first prop...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/z/beauly-wp/gfhz-beauly-the-jesuit-the-cup-stone-and-the-cave.mp3 0:06 4 full Beauly: Shinty, Power Lines and a Reopened Station https://qualla.com/beauly/ Photo credit Reading Tom from Reading, UK, CC BY 2.0. Beauly today is a village of around 1,365 people, on the Far North Line that runs from Inverness up to Wick and Thurso. Its railway station, built in 1862 and closed in 1960 during the Beeching cuts, was renovated and reopened in 2002 - one of the small reversals of fortune that ...

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