The Village
Founded by the British Fisheries Society in 1788. It is a
beautiful Highland village (population - including the
surrounding area - is about 1700) set on the shore of
Lochbroom, a sea loch running directly into the Minch.
Within 100m of Woodlands
A wide variety of shops: a Tesco Supermarket,
a Costcutters, Boots the chemists,
Parletts
newsagent,
The Frigate bakery and
wholefood shop, Captains Cabin
hardware and fancy goods store, two bookshops,
several woollens shops, outdoor clothing shops
including a designer knitwear shop, an Organic and
wholefood shop, a Post Office and two Banks
and several gift shops.
Just a little further and we have the Internationally known
Highland Stoneware with its beautiful and individual
hand made and painted ceramics of every kind.
In the village there is also a Police Station,
a petrol station, two motor repairers
one boat builder and repairer.
Plenty of fine pubs, restaurants and cafes
(menus are in the room files)
The Public
Library is in the
Ullapool
High School
in Mill Street, which has
free Internet access.
Live performances of concerts and plays etc take place in
The
MacPhail Centre within the
High
School as well as
in the Village
Hall
Many Local pubs have live, traditional musicians to
entertain their customers
Shore
Street
There are many
fine walks locally The
5.5 km beach walk
to
Rhue Point Lighthouse the
4.8 km walk on the well
set up
Ullapool Hill Path -
both
of these
start within 200m of Woodlands. The excellent
footpath round the
Knockan Crag (about
8 mile - 13 km - North)
is
highly recommended,
easy
1 to 1 1/2 hour walk with
spectacular views Click here for
other local
walks (then click the
Tourism label on the page you get)
Ullapool News
is the long established local community newspaper -
on sale every
Friday at
Lochbroom Hardware and
several other local outlets.
Ullapool News is a weekly,
and has been running for 38 years, making it one of
the very longest established such paper in the UK. I
t's a great read - taken by almost all the locals and
packed with information of what's been happening
or is about to happen in the district. A great many
copies are sent away from the village to be
read
by friends and regular holidaymakers, enabling them
to
keep up with
Ullapool news and activities.
Ullapool also has its
own
Radio Station, Lochbroom FM (broadcasting on
102.2kHz.), once reputed to be the smallest Radio
Station in the world. Located in its own
purpose
built premises on
Mill Street Industrial Estate It is run
entirely by volunteers. In the summer it is
famous around
the world for its unique, daily
'midge count' !!Fancy
training as a Radio Presenter ? Get in touch
with Lochbroom FM
-
they run holiday excellent
courses !!
(photo
LBFM)
Visitors
are very welcome at
Lochbroom FM
The Pier
In the tourist season there are pleasure boat
trips to the
Summer Islands and
MacBraynes
Ferry to Stornoway
It is only about
75m from Woodlands
The
Ferry "Isle of Lewis" leaving Ullapool
Despite being
built as a
herring port,
Ullapool has few fish
landings these days - all the fish
sold while the ships are at sea.
Ullapool Junior Pipe Band
Thursday evenings at 7.30pm in the summer
season, the renowned
Ullapool Junior Pipe Band ( gained a
Queen's Award for Voluntary Services in 2005)
marches with
pipes and drums from the
Village Hall in
Market Street, down
Quay Street to the
MacBraynes (Ferry) Car park, where, with the
young Scottish
Dancers, they put on a fine, 1 hour performance
delighting large
numbers of visitors and regular local
supporters.
It's
well worth taking the trouble to be there.
Passing Woodlands on their way to their
regularThursday evening
performancein the Ferry car
park
Highlands Before Pylons
Ullapool is also the base for HBP, the
organisation campaigning against spoiling our beautiful
countryside with overhead power lines
An Teallach from Loch Droma
(photo Iain Roy)
Loch
Droma sunset
You can't save the environment (via renewable
energy)
by
destroying it with pylons and turbines !!!
Eating Out in Ullapool is Excellent !!
We have a large variety of Restaurants and pubs
offering high
quality local produce.
Try
: -
The
Morefield - Large bar
specialising in local seafood
The
Ceilidh Place - Local produce
and fine
vegetarian and wholefood
meals
The
Seaforth
-
local produce and wonderful Highland
Tapas
The Arch Inn - Local produce
with lively and varied menu
Tall
Ships - Good menu,
bring your own wine/beer
Evening meals are also available in
The Argyll Hotel, The Ferryboat Inn,
The Royal Hotel (Italian),
The Caledonian Hotel,
The Frigate,
The Broom Bar.
The Jasmin (Indian) Restaurant
Lunches and light meals are also available
inThe
Ceilidh Place, The Frigate,The Tea Store,
Dal Na Mara(Tea by the Sea), Mountain
ManThe
Jade House (Chinese
takeaway) Award
winning
Fish and Chips
BBC's Food and Farming Awards
1st Prize 2004 'Small takeway' all ensure you
won't go hungry in Ullapool ALL within easy
walking distance of Woodlands
Market Street in Springtime
Watch the Isle of Lewis(Stornoway Ferry) embarking
or disembarking
lorries, cars and passengers. Wednesdays and
Fridays, in the summer season, you can take a day trip
on the Ferry, giving you 6 hours ashore,
and
including a coach trip round Lewis visiting the
Calanish Stones,
a Broch and a 'Black House', before returning
to the Ferry for the evening return to
Ullapool.
You can board
The Summer Queen for spectacular
cruises down beautiful
Lochbroom, past
Rhue Point Lighthouse,
round
Isle Martin and out to the
stunning
Summer
Islands, landing
on
Tanera Mohr
View
from Tanera Mohr
Visit the
seals (Grey and Common) and the
Salmon Farm and see
Harbour Porpoise and
very
occasionally
Bottlenosed Dolphins.
If
you are very lucky
Sea Otters and
Orcas can
be
seen. There are also a very large variety of
sea
birds. After a storm, one of the finest sights
in
the area, is to watch the Gannets plummeting
into
the sea from 20m or more.
Our roads are still uncongested, and the unspoiled
and
unsurpassed beauty of
our
countryside - the last true
Wilderness in the UK - with its
abundant wildlife, is sure to entrance you.
Motoring is
still a pleasure up here, and with open eyes you can
spot
Red deer, Golden Eagles,
Red Kites and, if you're
lucky, an
Osprey, not far
from
Ullapool.
In the spring there are frolicking
lambs in the
fields,
the hedgerows are full of
primroses, violets and
bluebells and the
hillsides are golden with flowering
Gorse and
Broom
Many visitors come back again and again to our lovely
unspoiled area
We, ourselves, came every summer from 1977 to 1993 -
then we had the good sense to move here in early 1995
!!
(Most sensible thing we've ever done !!)
Two of our regular visitors have stayed every
spring since we moved here !
Nowhere else in the North West Highlands offers
anywhere near the variety
of eating out, quiet relaxing pubs (and pubs with
Scottish music) and such a variety of pleasant walks
in such a spectacular environment. Within easy day
or half-day range of
Ullapool there are
an
enormous range of
Places to See and
Things to Do
Lochbroom
Sunset
So make
Ullapool
the
centre
for
your Highland Holiday
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