URPoint Details
Visitor centre includes: a Jacobite exhibition, historical display and auditorium with multi-lingual audio-visual programme; toilets; bookshop and self-service restaurant. Three disabled car parking spaces close to Centre. Access direct from car park on level double doors and easy access to all Centre except Leanach Cottage display, which is entered through a door 2' wide, and 4'6 high. Battlefield: the rough nature of the site and its size means that people in wheelchairs and the less-able are likely to find it tiring going round the whole site. Shop on one easy level.
Also in the Trust's care are the Grave of the Clans, the Well of the Dead, the Memorial cairn, the Cumberland Stone and the Field of the English."
No name in Scottish history evokes more emotion than that of Culloden the bleak moor, which in 1746 saw the hopes of young Prince Charles Edward Stuart, crushed.
A visit here is one of the most moving and memorable experiences. It may not take long to walk around and through this famous battlefield, but it is hauntingly tragic to think of how many lives were lost in such a small area!
The end of the Jacobite Rising, fought here on 16 April 1746 by an army led by the
- Type:
- Battlefields