Edderton

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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

| lieutenancy_scotland =

| constituency_westminster = Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross

| constituency_scottish_parliament = Caithness, Sutherland and Ross

| post_town = Tain

| postcode_district = IV19 1

| postcode_area = IV

| dial_code =

}}

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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 of Scotland.{{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}}{{Bing maps | url = https://binged.it/2nHwEKN| title=Edderton| accessdate = 23 March 2017 }} It has approximately 388 inhabitants. It is the location of the Balblair Distillery, and of the Edderton Cross Slab, a Class III 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.{{cite web |title=Ardmore House |url=https://www.tainmuseum.org.uk/article.php?id=78 |website=Tain Museum |access-date=28 November 2022}}

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.{{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}} The distillery and village were served by the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway from 1864 until Edderton railway station closed in 1960.