Beauly
Beauly is a town in the Kilmorack Church of the Scottish Area of Inverness, on the River Beauly, 10 miles (16 kilometres) west of Inverness by the Far North train line. The town is now within the Highland council location. The land around Beauly is productive - historically corn was grown extensively as well as more recently fruit has effectively been farmed. The town traditionally traded in coal, wood, lime, grain and also fish. In January 2010, the Scottish government accepted controversial plans for a power line upgrade that will begin in Beauly and finish in Denny, Falkirk. The new power line, part of a strategy to carry electrical energy generated by wind farms on the Western Isles, was called "the most substantial grid infrastructure task in a generation" by Jim Mather MSP. The 220-kilometre (140 mi) line will consist of a network of 600 pylons, varying in elevation from 42 to 65 metres (138 to 213 feet). The first part of the transmission circuit (Beauly to Ft Augustus) was turned on in July 2013. The population of Beauly was 1,126 in 1991, 1,283 in 2001 and also 1,365 in 2011.
