Qualla: Plockton https://qualla.com/plockton en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Plockton https://qualla.com/plockton Plockton: Introduction https://qualla.com/plockton/ Cabbage trees on a Highland promenade should not exist. The fronds belong somewhere south - the Scillies maybe, or coastal Cornwall - not on a village waterfront at 57 degrees north, where the same latitude in Canada gives you northern Labrador. Yet there they stand on Plockton's Harbour Street, planted in the 1960s and somehow thriving, a defiant little patch of the tropics held in place by the North Atlantic Drift. Add the moored boats in the bay, the painted cottages, and the mountains of Applecross across the water, and you have what locals call - with only slight exaggeration - the prettiest village in the Highlands.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/y/plockton-wk/gf5y-plockton-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Plockton: A Pimple of a Name https://qualla.com/plockton/ The name is, frankly, a joke. In Scots slang a plook is a pimple, and The Plock is the small headland that shelters Plockton's harbour from the prevailing westerly weather. Whoever laid out the village in the 1810s seems to have decided that Plookton was perhaps not the most mark...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/y/plockton-wk/gf5y-plockton-a-pimple-of-a-name.mp3 0:06 2 full Plockton: Hamish Macbeth's Village https://qualla.com/plockton/ In the 1990s a BBC television crew arrived and started filming a series called Hamish Macbeth, starring Robert Carlyle as a small-town policeman with a fondness for soft drugs and harder cases. The fictional village was Lochdubh; the real village in every shot was Plockton. Carly...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/y/plockton-wk/gf5y-plockton-hamish-macbeths-village.mp3 0:06 3 full Plockton: Duncraig and the Opium Money https://qualla.com/plockton/ A mile east of the village stands Duncraig Castle, a Scottish baronial pile built in 1866 by Alexander Matheson. Matheson made his fortune in the Chinese opium trade - the same vast and morally indefensible business that built fortunes for Jardine Matheson and many of the Highlan...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/y/plockton-wk/gf5y-plockton-duncraig-and-the-opium-money.mp3 0:06 4 full Plockton: Free Kirk in the Amphitheatre https://qualla.com/plockton/ Above the village is a curious ruin - the remains of a Free Kirk, the breakaway Presbyterian congregation that walked out of the Church of Scotland in the great Disruption of 1843. They built their kirk in a natural amphitheatre of rock and grass. The worshippers stood outside, e...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/y/plockton-wk/gf5y-plockton-free-kirk-in-the-amphitheatre.mp3 0:06 5 full Plockton: Doing Plockton https://qualla.com/plockton/ Sea Kayak Plockton runs trips suitable for beginners, with longer paddles for those happy in open water - the loch is mild enough most days, and seals appear with regularity. The Lochcarron Highland Games are held on the Attadale Estate in mid-July, and the Plockton Regatta runs ...

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