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16-566: Sleat is a peninsula and civil parish on the island of Skye in the Highland council area of Scotland , known as "the garden of Skye". It is the home of the clan MacDonald of Sleat . The name comes from the Scottish Gaelic Slèite , which in turn comes from Old Norse sléttr (smooth, even), which well describes Sleat when considered in the surrounding context of the mainland, Skye and Rùm mountains that dominate

32-588: A great height. Sleat is a traditional parish that has several communities and two major landowners (the Clan Donald Lands Trust and Eilean Iarmain Estate). Most of the population lives on the southern side of the peninsula. The main settlements along the Sound of Sleat are, from north east to south west, Isleornsay , Teangue , Ferindonald , Kilmore , Armadale , Ardvasar and Aird of Sleat . On

48-535: A legal obligation to consult them. Christopher Young (producer) Roger Christopher Young , known as Chris Young , is a Scottish TV and film producer, and founder of Young Films . His credits include The Inbetweeners and Bannan . Young was born in Edinburgh in 1959. His London-based company specialized in high-quality niche films, such as the highly-acclaimed Gaelic-language film Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle . He achieved wider popularity with

64-674: A number of subjects in Gaelic, and is the largest employer in the area. The Gaelic feature-length film, Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle , was largely filmed in Sleat and produced by Christopher Young , a Sleat resident and partial Gaelic speaker. 57°06′37″N 5°55′56″W  /  57.11016°N 5.93223°W  / 57.11016; -5.93223 Civil parishes in Scotland Civil parishes gained legal functions in 1845 when parochial boards were established to administer

80-555: Is a designated Gaelic-medium school. There was some local and national controversy in 2006 about the decision to change the status of the school from an English school with a Gaelic medium unit to a Gaelic school but in the end the Highland Council opted for a compromise solution, designating the school as an all-Gaelic school but with an English-medium unit. Sleat is home to Scotland's only Gaelic-medium college, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig , which provides university-level education in

96-511: Is a hostel for those who live particularly far away. Minor roads connect the two coasts of Sleat, and a minor road also extends beyond Armadale to Aird of Sleat. Beyond Aird a track leads 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) to the Point of Sleat Lighthouse . A Caledonian MacBrayne car ferry connects Armadale to Mallaig on the mainland. After the Trotternish peninsula, the Sleat peninsula is

112-545: The Highlands and Islands Community Energy Company annual conference. The A851 road links Armadale to the rest of Skye. In the early 2000s the final section of a new double-track road through Sleat from Armadale Ferry to Broadford was finished. After later substantial upgrades by June 2019 it became a S2 road throughout. Most teenage school-children in Sleat travel along the A851 to attend Portree High School , where there

128-556: The ecclesiastical parishes of the Church of Scotland . As parishes used for religious functions diverged from civil parishes, the former became known as quoad sacra parishes . Since 1975, Scotland has been divided into community council areas which are often similar to civil parishes in their boundaries. These community council are not equivalent to English parish councils and Welsh community councils and do not have legal powers of their own but in some cases local authorities have

144-466: The poor law . Their local government functions were abolished in 1930 with their powers transferred to county or burgh councils. Since 1975, they have been superseded as the smallest unit of local administration in Scotland by community councils . Civil parishes in Scotland can be dated from 1845, when parochial boards were established to administer the poor law . While they originally corresponded to

160-468: The TV series and film The Inbetweeners . Young moved with his family to Skye in the 1990s. Young Films was relocated there in 2014. Young is a Gaelic-language activist, and his children attend Gaelic medium education. In 2014, Young endorsed Scottish independence, arguing that it would provide opportunities for Scottish film and television. This biographical article related to the cinema of Scotland

176-453: The horizon all about Sleat. The peninsula extends from an isthmus between the heads of Loch Eishort and Loch na Dal for 13 miles (21 km) southwest to Point of Sleat at the southern tip of Skye. It is bounded on the northwest by Loch Eishort and on the southeast by the Sound of Sleat . Most of Sleat, unlike most of Skye, is fairly fertile, and though there are hills, most do not reach

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192-788: The local authorities created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and they continue to be used for census purposes. They are used as part of the coding system for agricultural holdings under the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) used to administer schemes within the Common Agricultural Policy . According to the website of the General Register Office for Scotland , there are now 871 civil parishes. Civil parish boundaries originally corresponded with

208-546: The northwest side are Tokavaig and Tarskavaig . Sleat Community Trust ( Scottish Gaelic : Urras Coimhearsnachd Shlèite ), the local development trust , has purchased the Skye Ferry Filling Station at Armadale and in common with many communities is investigating the options for renewable energy production. It also owns Sleat Renewables Ltd., a timber production company. In October 2007 the Trust hosted

224-431: The parishes of the Church of Scotland , the number and boundaries of parishes soon diverged. Where a parish contained a burgh , the area of the parish outside the burgh was termed the landward area. Until 1891 some parishes lay in more than one county . In that year, under the terms of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 , the boundaries of most of the civil parishes and counties were realigned so that each parish

240-585: The second strongest Gaelic-speaking area in Skye. In the 1901 census, 91% of the population was recorded as speaking Gaelic, with 10% recorded as Gaelic monolinguals. In the 2011 census, 39% of the population in Sleat were recorded as speaking Gaelic, with the highest percentage of Gaelic speakers in Tarskavaig and Achnacloich (51%), and the lowest in Armadale (27%). The local primary school, Bun-sgoil Shlèite ,

256-413: Was wholly within a single county. In 1894 the parochial boards were replaced by more democratically elected parish councils. Parish councils were in turn abolished in 1930, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 , with powers being transferred to county councils in landward areas of counties and burgh councils where they were within a burgh. Their boundaries continued to be used to define some of

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