page_title: Ullapool
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Ullapool / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The churchyard at Ullapool Museum Telford Church: memorial to A H Wallace, lost in the sinking of the SS City of Benares 1940.
context_page_description: Ullapool is a village of around 1,500 inhabitants in Ross and Cromarty, Scottish Highlands, located around 45 miles north-west of Inverness. Despite its small size it is the largest settlement for many miles around, and an important port and tourist destination. The North Atlantic Drift passes Ullapool, moderating the temperature. A few Cordyline australis are grown in the town and are often mistaken for palm trees.
  The town lies on Loch Broom, on the A835 road from Inverness. The Ullapool River flows through the village.
context_section_description: On the east shore of Loch Broom, Ullapool was founded in 1788 as a herring port by the British Fisheries Society. It was designed by Thomas Telford. Before then the town was only an insignificant hamlet of just over 20 households. The harbour is used as a fishing port, yachting haven, and ferry port. Ferries sail to Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides.
  The village was historically in Cromartyshire, a county made up of many separate enclaves scattered across northern Ross-shire. Cromartyshire was abolished and combined with surrounding Ross-shire in 1890.
  Many of the pivotal discoveries of the Victorian era that contributed to the development of the concept of plate tectonics were made in this area, and there are still regular international geological conferences. It is described as the top geological hotspot in Scotland.
  Parliament granted permission in the 1890s for a railway from Ullapool to the main Highland network at Garve, but the scheme was abandoned due to insufficient funds.
  The name is possibly derived from the Norse for "Wool farm" or "Ulli's farm".
caption: Old Telford Church: memorial to J H Wallace, lost in the sinking of the SS City of Benares in 1940
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