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The Royal Burgh
Royal burgh

A royal burgh was a type of Scottish burgh which had been founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter. Although abolished in 1975, the term is still used in many of the former burghs....
 of Cromarty (Cromba in Gaelic) is a burgh
Burgh

A Burgh is an Wiktionary:Autonomy corporate entity in Scotland, usually a town. This type of administrative division has existed since the 12th century, when David I of Scotland created the first Royal burghs....
 in Ross and Cromarty
Ross and Cromarty

Ross and Cromarty is a vaguely or variously defined area in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. There is a registration county and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland in current use....
, Highland
Highland (council area)

The Highland Council areas of Scotland area is a local government area in the Scottish Highlands and the largest local government area in both Scotland and the United Kingdom as a whole....
, Scotland
Scotland

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.

as previously the county town
County town

A county town is the 'capital' of a county in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland. County towns are usually the location of administrative or judicial functions, or established over time as the de facto main town of a county....
 of the former county
Counties of Scotland

The counties of Scotland were the principal subdivisions of Scotland of Scotland until 1975. Scotland's current Lieutenancy areas of Scotland and registration counties are largely based on them....
 of Cromartyshire
Cromartyshire

Cromartyshire was a Counties of Scotland in the Highlands of Scotland, consisting of a main portion between Sutherland and Ross-shire and a series of exclaves within Ross-shire....
. The burgh is a seaport on the southern shore of the mouth of Cromarty Firth
Cromarty Firth

The Cromarty Firth forms an arm of the North Sea in Scotland.From where it joins Moray Firth, the Cromarty Firth extends inland in a westerly and then south-westerly direction for a distance of 19 miles ....
, 5 miles from Invergordon
Invergordon

Invergordon is a town and port in Easter Ross, in Ross and Cromarty, Highland , Scotland.The town is served by Invergordon railway station.A naval base in the early 20th century, evidence of which remains in the tank farm lying behind the town centre, which used to contain fuel oil and water for admiralty ships, and the Admiralty Pier, wh...
 on the opposite coast.

The name Cromarty variously derives from the Gaelic crom (crooked), and from bati (bay), or from àrd (height), meaning either the "crooked bay", or the "bend between the heights" (referring to the high rocks, or Sutors, which guard the entrance to the Firth
Firth

Firth is the Scots language word used to denote various coastal waters in Scotland. It is usually a large sea bay, which may be part of an estuary, or just an inlet, or even a strait....
), and gave the title to the earldom of Cromarty.






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The Royal Burgh
Royal burgh

A royal burgh was a type of Scottish burgh which had been founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter. Although abolished in 1975, the term is still used in many of the former burghs....
 of Cromarty (Cromba in Gaelic) is a burgh
Burgh

A Burgh is an Wiktionary:Autonomy corporate entity in Scotland, usually a town. This type of administrative division has existed since the 12th century, when David I of Scotland created the first Royal burghs....
 in Ross and Cromarty
Ross and Cromarty

Ross and Cromarty is a vaguely or variously defined area in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. There is a registration county and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland in current use....
, Highland
Highland (council area)

The Highland Council areas of Scotland area is a local government area in the Scottish Highlands and the largest local government area in both Scotland and the United Kingdom as a whole....
, Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
.

History

It was previously the county town
County town

A county town is the 'capital' of a county in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland. County towns are usually the location of administrative or judicial functions, or established over time as the de facto main town of a county....
 of the former county
Counties of Scotland

The counties of Scotland were the principal subdivisions of Scotland of Scotland until 1975. Scotland's current Lieutenancy areas of Scotland and registration counties are largely based on them....
 of Cromartyshire
Cromartyshire

Cromartyshire was a Counties of Scotland in the Highlands of Scotland, consisting of a main portion between Sutherland and Ross-shire and a series of exclaves within Ross-shire....
. The burgh is a seaport on the southern shore of the mouth of Cromarty Firth
Cromarty Firth

The Cromarty Firth forms an arm of the North Sea in Scotland.From where it joins Moray Firth, the Cromarty Firth extends inland in a westerly and then south-westerly direction for a distance of 19 miles ....
, 5 miles from Invergordon
Invergordon

Invergordon is a town and port in Easter Ross, in Ross and Cromarty, Highland , Scotland.The town is served by Invergordon railway station.A naval base in the early 20th century, evidence of which remains in the tank farm lying behind the town centre, which used to contain fuel oil and water for admiralty ships, and the Admiralty Pier, wh...
 on the opposite coast.

The name Cromarty variously derives from the Gaelic crom (crooked), and from bati (bay), or from àrd (height), meaning either the "crooked bay", or the "bend between the heights" (referring to the high rocks, or Sutors, which guard the entrance to the Firth
Firth

Firth is the Scots language word used to denote various coastal waters in Scotland. It is usually a large sea bay, which may be part of an estuary, or just an inlet, or even a strait....
), and gave the title to the earldom of Cromarty. Its name in 1264 was Crumbathyn.

The town grew around its port, formerly used by ferries
Ferry

A ferry is a form of transport, usually a boat or ship, used to carry passengers and their vehicles across a body of water. Ferries are also used to transport freight and even railroad cars....
, to export locally-grown hemp
Hemp

File:Industrialhemp.jpgHemp is the common name for plants of the entire genus Cannabis, although the term is often used to refer only to Cannabis strains cultivated for industrial use....
 fibre
Fiber

Fiber or fibre is a class of materials that are continuous filaments or are in discrete elongated pieces, similar to lengths of yarn. They are very important in the biology of both plants and animals, for holding tissue s together....
 (from cannabis
Cannabis

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), and by trawlers trawling for herring
Herring

Herring are small, oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, including the Baltic Sea....
s. The port was a British naval base during WW1 and H.M.S. Natal blew up close by on 30 December 1915 with heavy loss of life. Today, the port is home to the UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
's smallest vehicle ferry, running across the Firth to Nigg
Nigg

Nigg can refer to two places in Scotland:* Nigg, Aberdeen* Nigg, Highland, a village in Easter Ross, Highland; on Nigg Bay, in the Cromarty Firth...
 (home to a large facility formerly used for the manufacture and maintenance of oil rig
Oil rig

Oil rig may refer to* Drilling rig - for on-land oil drilling* Oil platform - for offshore oil drilling...
s and an oil terminal connected to the Beatrice oilfield
List of oil fields

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). It runs from June to October, from roughly 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. The vessel is called the Cromarty Rose
Cromarty Rose

The M.V. Cromarty Rose is the smallest ro-ro in the UK, and the only ferry serving the Black Isle, crossing the firth between Cromarty and Nigg Bay....
.

Cromarty is architecturally important for its Victorian
Victorian architecture

The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly employed during the Victorian era. As with the latter, the period of building that it covers may slightly overlap the actual reign, 20 June 1837 ? 22 January 1901, of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom after whom it is named....
 cottage
Cottage

In modern usage, a cottage is a dwelling, typically in a rural, or semi-rural location . In the United Kingdom, the term cottage tends to denote a rurally- located one and a half storey property, where on the second one has to walk into the eaves in order to look through the windows, which are generally located in dormers ....
s in the local vernacular
Vernacular

Vernacular refers to the native language of a country or a locality. In general linguistics, it is used to describe local languages as opposed to Lingua franca, official standards or global languages....
 style. The thatched house with crow-stepped gables in Church Street, in which the geologist
Geologist

For other uses, see Geologist .A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology, studying the physical structure and processes of the Earth and planets of the solar system ....
 Hugh Miller
Hugh Miller

Hugh Miller was a self-taught Scotland geologist and writer, folklorist and an evangelical Christian....
 was born, still stands, and a statue has been erected to his memory. To the east of the burgh is Cromarty House, occupying the site of the old castle of the earls of Ross. It was the birthplace of Sir Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart

Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty was a Scottish writer and translator, most famous for his translation of Fran?ois Rabelais....
, the translator of Rabelais.

The burgh is also noted as a base for viewing the local offshore sea life. These include one of the most northerly groups of bottlenose dolphins. Cromarty along with Chanonry Point
Chanonry Point

Chanonry Point lies at the end of Chanonry Ness, a Spit of land extending into the Moray Firth between Fortrose and Rosemarkie on the Black Isle, Scotland....
 just round the coast is one of the best places in Europe to see these animals close to the shore. The University of Aberdeen department of zoology lighthouse field station is based in Cromarty.

Cromarty gives its name to one of the British Sea Areas used to provide weather forecasts to shipping.

Parliamentary burgh

From 1832 to 1918 Cromarty was a parliamentary burgh, combined with Dingwall
Dingwall

Dingwall is a town and former royal burgh in the Highland of Scotland. It has a population of 5,026. It formerly functioned as an east-coast harbor, but now lies inland....
, Dornoch
Dornoch

Dornoch is a town and seaside resort, and former Royal burgh in the Highlands of Scotland, on the north shore of the Dornoch Firth, close to where it opens into the Moray Firth to the east....
, Kirkwall
Kirkwall

Kirkwall is the largest town and capital of the Orkney Islands, off the coast of northern mainland Scotland. The town is first mentioned in the Orkneyinga saga in the year 1046....
, Tain and Wick
Wick, Highland

Wick is an estuary town and a former burgh in the north of the Highland Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. Historically, it is one of two burghs within the Counties of Scotland of Caithness, of which Wick was the county town....
 in the Wick Burghs
Wick Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

Wick Burghs, sometimes known as Northern Burghs, was a United Kingdom constituencies of the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918....
 constituency
United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly....
 of the House of Commons
British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the British monarchy and the House of Lords ....
 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislature in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories....
. Known also as Northern Burghs, the constituency was a district of burghs. It was represented by one Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
. In 1918 the constituency was abolished and the Cromarty component was merged into the county constituency of Ross and Cromarty
Ross and Cromarty (UK Parliament constituency)

Ross and Cromarty was a county constituency of the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1983. The constituency elected one Member of Parliament....
.

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