Just a quicky?

[sweetpea]

Is Nairn in the Highlands? Can anyone shed some light please!

[Fran]

It is definetly in the Scottish highlands, I was there last week!

[justine]

here is a link that may help.....

http://www.visitscotland.com/aboutscotland/explorebymap/highlands/

we took the kids there camping...lovely area...

[sweetpea]

OK Fran. Thank you. By way, I know Drakies Cottage but not the number.

[justine]

but there are some discrepensies....
this is taken from a passge of wikipedia which states that nairnshire is not in the highlands...

In traditional Scottish geography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography), the Highlands refers to that part of Scotland north-west of the Highland Boundary Fault (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Boundary_Fault), which crosses mainland Scotland in a near-straight line from Dumbarton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbarton) to Stonehaven (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehaven). However the flat coastal lands that occupy parts of the counties of Nairnshire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairnshire), Morayshire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morayshire), Banffshire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banffshire) and Aberdeenshire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeenshire_%28historic%29) are excluded from most definitions as they do not share the distinctive geographical and cultural features of the rest of the Highlands. The north-east of Caithness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caithness), Orkney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkney) and Shetland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland) are also often excluded from the Highlands, although the Hebrides (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrides) are usually included. This definition of the Highland area differed from the Lowlands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Lowlands) by language and tradition, having preserved Gaelic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaels) speech and customs centuries after the anglicization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicization) of the latter; the result of which led to a growing perception of a divide with the cultural distinction between Highlander and Lowlander first noted towards the end of the 14th century. In Aberdeenshire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeenshire), the boundary between the Highlands and the Lowlands is not well defined. There is a stone beside the A93 road (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A93_road) near the village of Dinnet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinnet) on Royal Deeside (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Dee%2C_Aberdeenshire) which states 'You are now in the Highlands', although there are areas of Highland character to the east of this point.
A much wider definition of the Scottish Highlands is that used by the Scotch Whisky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_Whisky) industry. Highland Single Malts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Single_Malts) are produced at distilleries north of an imaginary line between Dundee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundee) and Greenock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenock) [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Highlands#cite_note-0), thus including all of Aberdeenshire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeenshire) and Angus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus).
Inverness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverness) and is traditionally regarded as the Capital of the Highlands, although less so in the Highland parts of Aberdeenshire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeenshire), Angus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus), Perthshire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perthshire) and Stirlingshire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirlingshire) which look more to cities such as Aberdeen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen), Perth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth%2C_Scotland), Dundee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundee) and Stirling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling) as their commercial centres. Under some of the wider definitions in use, Aberdeen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen) could be considered the largest city in the Highlands, although it does not share the same recent gaelic cultural history typical of the Highlands proper.

[northener]

I always thought Nairn was in Nairnia.:confused

On the town coat of arms they have a wardrobe with a lion on one side and a witch on the other........

[pat]

postcode - which is IV.

I always regarded as far as Elgin area the Highlands, after that its Aberdeenshire/North East.

[rfr10]

Yes Nairn is served by the Highland Council. Highland Youth Voice also represents Nairn academy. Further beyond that, the areas are served by Moray Council I believe.

Here's one of our Youth Voice maps for youth forums in the Highlands aswell:

http://www.highlandyouthvoice.org/DY_graphics/new/HighlandMap.gif

[marlyn]

Being a Nairnite born and bred I can assure you that it is in the Highlands. Grampian region starts just on the Nairn side of Brodie.