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unusual facts about Inverness-shire



A Fictional Guide to Scotland

This reading tour visited places as far and wide as Wigtown, Ullapool, Inverness, Edinburgh, Stirling, Lanark and Glasgow and was supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

Airlie Beach, Queensland

It is almost certain that the town was named for the parish of Airlie, in Scotland, as the name was suggested by the chairman of the former Proserpine Shire Council, who was born in nearby Montrose, Scotland.

Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint

Her first romance, Almagro, appeared in 1837, followed by De graaf van Devonshire ("The Earl of Devonshire") in 1838; De Engelschen te Rome ("The English at Rome") in 1840, and Het Huis Lauernesse ("The House of Lauernesse") in 1841, an episode of the Reformation that has been translated into many European languages.

Blar Nam Feinne

Blàr nam Fèinne (Battlefield of the Fingalians) on Cnoc na Moine (Hill of the Peat) in The Aird, to the west of Inverness, is the site of the 11th century battle between Scottish forces led by Maol Chaluim mac Dhonnchaidh (Malcolm III of Scotland) against Norwegian forces led by Thorfinn.

Bratton Fleming

The Flemings had their seat at Chimwell, now a farmhouse called Chumhill, which Risdon said was "one of the largest demesnes of this shire."

British Insurance

In 2006 the company was reported to be insuring three sisters from Inverness, Scotland, against the possibility of a virgin birth.

Bruce Billson

He was Manager of Corporate Development, for the Shire of Hastings, a Ministerial Adviser to the Victorian Minister for Natural Resources, and policy adviser to the Shadow Minister for the Environment, Senator Rod Kemp, before entering politics.

Bught

The sports fields are used as the home grounds for Inverness Blitz American football home games.

Cairns Region

On 21 November 1991, the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, created two years earlier, produced its second report, and recommended that local government boundaries in the Cairns area be rationalised, and that the Shire be dissolved and amalgamated with the City of Cairns.

Carmen Duncan

She currently serves as an Ambassador for the Breast Care Centre at the Royal Hospital for Women and as the Ambassador for Tenterfield Shire Council for Australia Day.

Castle Stuart Platform railway station

Castle Stuart Platform was a railway station located near Castle Stuart, to the east of Inverness, now in Highland council area.

Clan MacBean

Forbes Macbean, another of the well known military family descended from Reverend Alexander MacBean of Inverness (mentioned above), won a DSO (Distinguished Service Cross) in 1897 when serving as a Major in the Gordon Highlanders, for the gallant and courageous action in taking the heights of Dargai near the border of Afghanistan, in India's old north west province, which is now part of Pakistan.

David Leslie, Lord Newark

Macleod, who had fought with Montrose at the siege of Inverness, delivered him up to the Covenanters (see Battle of Carbisdale).

Drakies

Drakies is a small housing estate on the outskirts of Inverness, Scotland, lying immediately south of the former Inverness-shire village of Culcabock.

Earl of Inverness

The title of Earl of Inverness (Scottish Gaelic:Iarla Inbhir Nis) was first created in 1718 in the Jacobite Peerage of Scotland by James Francis Edward Stuart ("James III & VIII") for the Honourable John Hay of Cromlix, third son of the 7th Earl of Kinnoull, but became extinct upon the death of the grantee in 1740.

Galleries of Justice Museum

The Galleries of Justice Museum, also known as the Shire Hall, is an independent museum and a registered charity on High Pavement in the Lace Market area of Nottingham, England.

George Manson

But his health had been gradually failing, and he was ordered to Lympstone in Devonshire where he died in 1876.

Gervase Clifton, 1st Baron Clifton

In 1591, he became a Knight of the Shire of Huntingdonshire, settled in Leighton Bromswold and married Katherine, a daughter of Sir Henry Darcy (a previous Knight of the Shire) that year and was knighted by 1597.

Gervase of Tilbury

There are 4 Tilburys in the county; Tilbury (the dock town, founded from c.1883), East Tilbury and West Tilbury (both medieval manors and parishes) on the Thames shore and Tilbury Juxta Clare in the north of the shire.

Gordon Duthie

During the production of Shire and City Duthie commissioned an artwork piece which explored the urban myth that Bram Stoker used Slains Castle in Cruden Bay as an inspiration for Dracula (novel).

Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service

It was the fire service covering the largest geographical area in the United Kingdom (its area is roughly equivalent in size to Belgium), and has its headquarters in the city of Inverness.

Holm, Inverness

Additionally a large electrical substation is sited on Dores Road and this facility serves most of Inverness.

Holm is a small residential area in the south of the city of Inverness, Scotland.

John Ferguson McLennan

He was born at Inverness, the son of John McLennan, an insurance agent of Inverness, and Jessie Ross, his wife.

John Smith Murdoch

After completing his articles in 1883 he became assistant in the office of Alexander Ross in Inverness before moving to Glasgow to work for Campbell Douglas & Sellars and then for the Glasgow South Western Railway Engineers' Department.

Junee Shire

The Shire is located adjacent to the Olympic Way and the Main South railway line.

Kilmuir

Kilmuir, Black Isle - near North Kessock and Inverness, in the historic parish of Kilmuir Wester

Kinkell

Newton of Kinkell, a scattered crofting township, in Dingwall, Black Isle, Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands

Easter Kinkell, a rural village, in the parish of Urquhart and Logie Wester, in the county of Ross-shire

Kinmylies

Kinmylies is an area in the west end of the city of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.

Las Merindades

It is bounded on the north-west by the province of Cantabria, north-east by the province of Biscay, south by La Bureba, south-east by Ebro, south-west by Páramos, and on the east by the province of Álava.

Leslie Webster

He farmed at Flinders Island from 1918 to 1928, running Red Poll and Corriedale cattle and sheep studs, and serving as chairman of the Flinders Island Butter Factory Company, as a member of the local licensing court, and as a Flinders Island Council councillor for seven years, including a stint as shire warden.

Lewis Williamson

Despite his recent success in formulae cars, Williamson combines his racing with an apprenticeship at Ross-Shire Engineering, working as a fabrication engineer in Muir of Ord, a 100-mile round trip from his home in Golspie.

Lillydale Lake

Lillydale Lake (the name retaining the earliest spelling and the name of the former Lillydale Shire) is an artificial lake and wetlands area created in Lilydale, Melbourne, Australia.

Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony

When she became a widow, in 1647, she was granted Lolland-Falster as her fief and the position of royal sheriff of Nykøbing county with the two shires of Falster and the county of Ålholm.

Majete Game Reserve

David Livingstone's 1859 Zambezi Expedition came up the Shire but were unable to proceed beyond the falls.

Mangotsfield United F.C.

Gary Warren Mangotsfield United, Team Bath, Newport County, Inverness Caledonian Thistle.

Nick Wakeling

Over a 15-year period, Wakeling worked as an industrial advisor with the Victorian Government's Wageline Department; as an Industrial Officer with the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce (VACC); as a Human Resource Advisor with the Nillumbik Shire Council and more recently as a Senior Workplace Relations Advisor with the Adecco Group of Companies.

No. 614 Squadron RAF

In June 1940 No. 614 squadron moved to Scotland to carry out coastal patrols, covering an area from Inverness to Berwick, 'A' flight, which was detached to Inverness for that purpose, became No. 241 Squadron RAF in the process.

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

Boyle fought with the Parliamentarians until the execution of the king, when he retired altogether from public affairs and took up his residence at Marston in Somersetshire.

Sandakan Death Marches

In 2011, Year 9 and 10 Drama Students at Toodyay District High School, in Western Australia, re-dramatised an updated version of the original 1947 ABC Radio play 'Six From Borneo' with help from the Toodyay community, including Toodyay Community Radio, the Shire of Toodyay and Toodyay RSL.

Sarehole

J. R. R. Tolkien lived there as a child in the 1890s, and the area influenced his description of the green and peaceful country of the Shire in his books.

Screen Machine

In recent years, it stood in for Eden Court’s Riverside Theatre in Inverness whilst they were closed for a major refurbishment.

Seymour-FM

The southern half of the shire is served by Melbourne radio stations, however the availability of media north of the 'Great Divide' is severely limited, with only scratchy reception from Shepparton (ONE-FM) and Alexandra (UG-FM) based community radio, and the two Shepparton based commercial stations, and ABC.

Shire of Bulloo

Cameron Corner, the point where New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia, is located at the south west corner of the shire.

Shire of Burke

The shire and town and the Burke River passing through all are named in honour of ill-fated explorer Robert O'Hara Burke.

Shire of Waterford

The Shire of Waterford is a former local government area in the south-east of Queensland, Australia, centred on the town of Waterford.

Talia Shire

She was married to composer David Shire, with whom she had a son, Matthew Orlando Shire.

The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest

Set following the events of the three books, players guide a young hobbit around The Shire (the hub world), who listens to stories told by Samwise Gamgee (a hobbit) about Aragorn.

Wingecarribee Shire

In 2012, the Wingecarribee Shire Council won a landmark class action against Lehman Brothers Australia in the Federal Court after it was found that Lehman Brothers failed to give sound financial to the Wingecarribee Shire and other councils through exposure to high-risk investments known as collateralised debt obligations.


see also

Charles Herbert Mackintosh

Paternally, he claimed to be a near relation of the essayist and politician, the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, who was member of the Kellachie branch of the Inverness-shire-based Clan Mackintosh, part of the Scottish Highlands Chattan Confederation.

James Macpherson

In the autumn he set out to visit western Inverness-shire, the islands of Skye, North Uist, South Uist and Benbecula.

Kinkell

Bishop Kinkell, a small scattered crofting hamlet in Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands

Westhill, Inverness

It is situated on the eastern edge of the city, between Cradlehall and Culloden, in Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands.