Croick Church
Croick, Highland
This pretty little church is well known for the messages etched in the church window by families cleared from the surrounding land in 1845 as part of the infamous Highland clearances.
The church is similar to over one hundred other churches built in the same style across the Highlands. There are no memorials or stained glass windows.
Similar to other west coast parishes, Lochbroom and Gairloch both embrace substantial geographical areas, sprawling the length of a serrated coastline indented with deep bays and over mountainous terrain carved by steep valleys and lochs. Traditionally the parish churches were near the coast, people travelling by boat to kirk for worship or to the burial ground with their dead. But Ullapool was a deliberately 'planned' town on the site chosen by the British Fisheries Society in 1788 for their fishing village.