Torridon Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
village in the Wester Ross area of Scotland
About Torridon
Torridon is a tiny village in a big, big landscape. It gives its name to the Torridon sandstone which forms this section of coast plus Sleat the lowland part of Skye, and stretches up to Durness at the northwest tip of Scotland. The sandstone was laid down 1200 to 1000 million years ago in the Mesoproterozoic Era, those heady days when sexual reproduction was invented. (The continents then were roughly in their present shape, but far from their present arrangement.) The sandstone sits "unconformably" on Lewisian gneiss — that means a break in the time sequence, one helluva break as the gneiss is 3000 million years old — three billion. In several areas to the north the gneiss predominates, and it makes up almost all of Lewis (hence the term "Lewisian") and the Uists. The two rock systems ha
Top Attractions in Torridon
Explore the best things to see and do in Torridon:
- ★Applecross Heritage Centre
- ★Deer Museum
Where to Eat in Torridon
Must-try local food and restaurants:
- 🍴Applecross Inn
Where to Stay in Torridon
- 🏨Applecross Campsite
- 🏨Hartfield House Hostel
- 🏨Mol Mor Bunkhouse
- 🏨Stalker's Cottage
- 🏨The Torridon
- 🏨Torridon Campsite
Torridon Travel Guide Sections
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