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{{Infobox UK place
| country                          = Scotland
| official_name                    = Edderton
| scots_name                       =
| gaelic_name                      = Eadardan
| population                       = 388
| static_image                     = "Clach Biorach" (The Pointed Stone), Ardmore - geograph.org.uk - 915406.jpg
| static_image_caption             = [[Clach Biorach]] (The Pointed Stone). A Bronze-age stone with much later Pictish carvings.
| static_image_width               =
| os_grid_reference                = NH712844
| map_type                         = Ross and Cromarty
| coordinates                      = {{coord|57.83114|-4.17026|display=inline,title}}
| unitary_scotland                 = [[Highland (council area)|Highland]]
| lieutenancy_scotland             =
| constituency_westminster         = [[Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (UK Parliament constituency)|Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross]]
| constituency_scottish_parliament = [[Caithness, Sutherland and Ross (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Caithness, Sutherland and Ross]]
| post_town                        = [[Tain]]
| postcode_district                = IV19 1
| postcode_area                    = IV
| dial_code                        =
}}
[[Image:EddertonclassIIIright.JPG|thumb|One side of the Edderton cross slab, which lies in the old village church.]]
'''Edderton''' ({{langx|gd|Eadardan}}) is a village near [[Tain]], lying on the shores of the [[Dornoch Firth]], [[Easter Ross]] and is in the [[Highland Council area|Highland]] council area of Scotland.<ref>{{cite web |title=Edderton |url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst2201.html |website=The Gazetteer for Scotland |publisher=School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society |accessdate=18 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Bing maps | url = https://binged.it/2nHwEKN| title=Edderton| accessdate = 23 March 2017 }}</ref> It has approximately 388 inhabitants. It is the location of the [[Balblair Distillery]], and of the [[Edderton Cross Slab]], a Class III [[Pictish stones|Pictish stone]], which lies in  the old churchyard of the village. A quarter of a mile outside the town lies another stone, the ''[[Clach Biorach]]'', a Class I Pictish stone.
The former Ardmore House was a home of the chiefs of [[clan Ross]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Ardmore House |url=https://www.tainmuseum.org.uk/article.php?id=78 |website=Tain Museum |access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref>
[[Balblair distillery]] off Station Road, Edderton, officially dates back to 1790 (but was distilling before then): in 1846, it was recorded that it consumed 120 bushels of malt weekly, producing 240 gallons of whisky, of very high repute.<ref>{{cite web |title=Eaglesfield - Edenton Pages 349-361  A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland. |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/scotland/pp349-361#h3-0025 |website=British History Online |publisher=S Lewis, London 1846 |access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref>  The distillery and village were served by the [[Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway]] from 1864 until [[Edderton railway station]] closed in 1960.
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.edderton.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 Edderton.com]
[[Category:Populated places in Ross and Cromarty]]
[[Category:Parishes in Ross and Cromarty]]
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