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unusual facts about Cromarty


Cromarty

Cromarty is architecturally important for its Georgian merchant houses that stand within a townscape of Georgian and Victorian fisherman's cottages in the local vernacular style.


Hanna Tuulikki

She studied Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art and had a residency in Cromarty, where she recorded people imitating the sea on the CD 100 Breaths, 100 Waves, and a replication of a dawn chorus on Salutations To The Sun.

River Glass

Allt Graad or River Glass, which flows from Loch Glass to the Cromarty Firth in Scotland

Sir Charles Ross, 9th Baronet

Balnagown Castle, not far from the north shore of the Cromarty Firth near Invergordon, and adjacent parts of the once-extensive Ross estate of Balnagown have been owned since 1972 by billionaire businessman and Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, who has restored the castle.

Sopwith 1913 Circuit of Britain floatplane

The next day they left Beadnell at 8.05, stopping at Montrose, Aberdeen and Cromarty and reaching Oban on the west coast of Scotland at six in the evening, and took off on the third day at 5.42 am; after a stop at Kiells due to engine problems Larne was reached at 9.30.

William Pulteney

Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet (1729–1805), Scottish lawyer, MP for Cromarty and Shrewsbury


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