Redpoint, Highland

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B8056, Redpoint With a post box set into a rock on a high point on the road.

Redpoint (Template:Langx)[1] is a small settlement in the north west of Highland, Scotland. It takes its name from Red Point, a low promontory to the south, which marks a turn in the coastline from facing west to south east as it becomes Loch Torridon.[2]

Redpoint lies about Script error: No such module "convert". south west of Gairloch, at the end of the B8056 road.[3] A path leading from the road leads to a viewpoint from which it is possible (on a clear day) to see the Isle of Skye's Trotternish Ridge and also the Isle of Harris and Isle of Lewis.[4]

The villages of South Erradale, Opinan and Port Henderson are north along the B8056 coast road.[5]

Scottish electronic music band Boards of Canada released the album Geogaddi in 2002 that contains the track "The Beach at Redpoint".[6]

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