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Rhidorroch

forest in Highland, Scotland, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ16897057 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rhidorroch (Scottish Gaelic: An Ruigh Dhorcha) is a deer forest east of Ullapool, Ross-shire, Scotland, centred on the extended catchment of the Ullapool River. It is divided into two farms and sporting estates: Rhidorroch Estate and East Rhidorroch Estate.

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External links

"Rhidorroch Estate". Retrieved 15 April 2014.

"East Rhidorroch Estate". Retrieved 15 April 2014.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Rhidorroch” as forest in Highland, Scotland, UK. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Rhidorroch, forest and Highland can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as forest in Highland, Scotland, UK. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16897057. Authority coordinates are 57.933, -4.967. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rhidorroch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.