The Beauly Firth is a firth in northern Scotland. It is the outlet for both the River Beauly and River Ness. The Beauly Firth is bounded at its western end by the town of Beauly and its eastern by Inverness, where it empties into the Moray Firth.
A view of the Kessock Bridge, crossing the Beauly Firth, 2012
Sunset over the Beauly Firth, viewed from its southern shore
Beauly Firth looking towards the Kessock Bridge, seen in the distance
Road running along the north shore of the Beauly Firth, from Beauly to North Kessock
Firth is a word in the English and Scots languages used to denote various coastal waters in the United Kingdom, predominantly within Scotland. In the Northern Isles, it more often refers to a smaller inlet. It is linguistically cognate to fjord, which has a more constrained sense in English. Bodies of water named "firths" tend to be more common on the Scottish east coast, or in the southwest of the country, although the Firth of Clyde is an exception to this. The Highland coast contains numerous estuaries, straits, and inlets of a similar kind, but not called "firth" ; instead, these are often called sea lochs. Before about 1850, the spelling "Frith" was more common.
The estuary of the River Nith, opening into Solway Firth south of Dumfries.
Entrance to the Cromarty Firth, with oil rigs behind
Dundee from the Fife shore of the Firth of Tay
Cliffs in Saviskaill Bay on Rousay, looking northward to Westray across Westray Firth
