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Ferness (Fer Nis in Gaelic) is known to most Scots and film buffs as the seaside village that was the film location for the classic Bill Forsyth film Local Hero (based on local celebrity Denis Lawson Wedge Antilles). It is a remote township somewhere in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland and alongside Drunkenness, it forms a small number of uncharted townships in the area although it is thought to be somewhere near Lochaber, Fort William or Mallaig as the isles of Eigg and Rum can both be seen in the film.

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  • Ferness (Fer Nis in Gaelic) is known to most Scots and film buffs as the seaside village that was the film location for the classic Bill Forsyth film Local Hero (based on local celebrity Denis Lawson Wedge Antilles). It is a remote township somewhere in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland and alongside Drunkenness, it forms a small number of uncharted townships in the area although it is thought to be somewhere near Lochaber, Fort William or Mallaig as the isles of Eigg and Rum can both be seen in the film.
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  • Ferness (Fer Nis in Gaelic) is known to most Scots and film buffs as the seaside village that was the film location for the classic Bill Forsyth film Local Hero (based on local celebrity Denis Lawson Wedge Antilles). It is a remote township somewhere in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland and alongside Drunkenness, it forms a small number of uncharted townships in the area although it is thought to be somewhere near Lochaber, Fort William or Mallaig as the isles of Eigg and Rum can both be seen in the film. Ferness has never been seen since the release of this film although it does bear a striking resemblance to the village of Pennan close to Fraserburgh in the northeast of Aberdeenshire. For this reason, it is twinned with Pennan (and also Cumbernauld). One sighting of a Ferness was reported recently (2001) although it turned out that this was a Ferness-wannabe close to the Inverness-shire / Moray border on the A939 instead. Close inspection of this village shows no evidence of either a phone box, harbour or big beach with a shack on it and so claims could not be upheld.
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