Achnasheen

Achnasheen (Gaelic Achadh na Sìne) is a small village in Ross-shire in the Highland council area of Scotland.

The village is situated on the River Bran at the junction of two roads built by Thomas Telford, the A832 and the A890.

[1] Despite the size of the village, Achnasheen is also the name of a postal district which covers several much larger communities including Kinlochewe, Poolewe and Laide.

This dates from the time when the village railway station, built in 1870,[1] was an important stop on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving a large area of Wester Ross.

Between 1961 and 1991, the village was the location of a Royal Observer Corps monitoring bunker, to be used in the event of a nuclear attack.