A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Barrogill Castle, a mansion in Canisbay parish, Caithness, on the coast of the Pentland Firth, 16 miles ENE of Thurso. A venerable pile, it was greatly improved and enlarged from designs by Burn; and (to quote Miss Sinclair) is now an imposing edifice, `with all the natural elegance of a house in London, and all the external dignity of an ancient Highland residence.' It is a seat of Geo. Philips Al. Sinclair, who, born in 1858, succeeded as fourteenth Earl of Caithness in 1881, and owns in the shire 14,460 acres, valued at £4479 per annum.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Administrative units: | Canisbay ScoP Caithness ScoCnty |
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