Evanton North This Panel Explores Evanton and the Area to the North of the Village
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Evanton North This panel explores Evanton and the area to the north of the village. The green space where these panels are located is the Village Green, and is owned and maintained by the Evanton Community Trust, a Chapel Scottish Charity. The green was formerly part of an engineering Built by the United Secession Church in 1824 and used for a variety of public uses business operating from an aircraft hanger re- before becoming derelict after WW2. The local Fyrish Monument sited from the Evanton Airfield in the 1950’s. Council purchased the building in 1980 and Erected around 1783 by General Sir Roe deer converted it to form two houses, installing a clock for the first time in the building’s history. Hector Munro to provide employment Evanton History in a time of famine, the monument is The origins of Evanton said to be a copy of the gates of the which replaced the much Indian fortress of Negapatam, where he earlier settlement of defeated Tipu Sultan one of the last Drummond can be traced native princes to hold out against the back to 1810. Alexander British. The Monument is one of several Fraser of Inchcoulter (now follies on the Novar Estate and can be Balconie) laid out a new accessed from a public carpark three township on land between the River Glass and Caravan Site miles to the North East of the Village on the River Sgitheach on the line of the then newly The award winning the road to Boath. built Parliamentary road. He named caravan in the it after his son, Evan Baillie centre of the village provides an Fraser (Evanton). ideal base for Cup Mark Rocks touring the area. Bronze Age cupmarks carved into rocks up to 5,000 years ago have been found on twenty-eight separate sites on Swordale Hill and elsewhere around Evanton. One theory is that the cupmarks were ground into rocks with quartz between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago to symbolise the sun and connect with ancestors during ritual gatherings to celebrate midwinter and the equinoxes. Red squirrel Evanton Wood Originally part of the Novar Estate, a plan Black Rock was created for mixed replanting Wildlife In woodland near Evanton alongside some natural regeneration The wood is home the Black Rock Gorge is a following devastating storms in the to a variety of spectacularly narrow box- 1890s. This was influenced by species including canyon, 120 ft deep. It Professor Schlich, a father figure in red and roe deer, features in one scene in the British forestry. Since the 1950s the red squirrels and film Harry Potter and the trees have been allowed to renew pine martens. The Goblet of Fire. Bridges over themselves naturally. The woods also provide an the gorge built by the Royal award- winning wood is recognised ideal habitat for a wide range Engineers form part of the as a fine example of continuous cover of native insects and woodland walks. The gorge is forestry. Since 2012 the wood has been amphibians and nesting birds the setting for a local legend held in community ownership by the including breeding buzzards. ‘The Lady of Balconie’ Evanton Wood Group. Pine marten.