Step Into History · Scotland

Walk the Highland capital in 1745.

Cross the seven-arched bridge into Inverness in the year of the last Jacobite Rising — a walk through time in photoreal scenes you can look all the way around. Stand by the market cross and the Town House, below the old castle on its hill above the River Ness, along Church Street to the Old High Church, and out onto Culloden Moor. A window into Highland town life on the eve of Culloden. Free, in your browser.

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What you’ll find

A guided route through the old burgh on the Ness — the four streets meeting at the market cross, the river and the bridge, the castle and the kirk, and the moor beyond — each a photoreal scene you can look around, with a step inside the great buildings.

The Old Castle

The government fort on the hill above the east bank of the Ness — blown up by the Jacobites in February 1746 (the present castle is a Victorian replacement).

The Ness Bridge

The old seven-arched stone bridge of 1685 crossing to the quieter west bank — swept away by a flood in 1849.

The Market Cross

The heart of the burgh with the Clach-na-Cudainn stone at its foot, where the High Street, Bridge Street, Church Street and Castle Street met.

The Town House

The burgh's tolbooth and council house with its steeple, by the market cross.

The Old High Church

The parish kirk on its ancient mound above the river — its kirkyard would see Jacobite prisoners shot after the battle.

Culloden Moor

The bleak moor east of the town where the last battle of the clans was lost in driving sleet on 16 April 1746.

A note on accuracy

These are photoreal evocationsof the period, composed scene by scene — historically grounded impressions, not survey photographs. We hold to 1745–46: the old castle still stands on its hill, the seven-arched bridge still spans the Ness, and the Victorian town that came later is nowhere to be seen.