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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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Campbeltown, a village in Ardersier and Petty parishes, NE Inverness-shire, on - the coast of a picturesque bay of the Moray Firth, 1½ mile SE of Fort George, and 1½ NW of Fort George station, this being 10½ miles NE of Inverness. A burgh of barony under the Earl of Cawdor, it takes its designation of Campbeltown from his Lordship's family name. It is built without any regard to regularity; and the Petty part of it, though quite dovetailed into the other part, is sometimes called Stuarton. The entire place is partly a fishing village, partly a summer resort for sea-bathing; and it has a strong chalybeate spring, 8 hotels, a U.P. church, a subscription library, and a great fair on 12 Aug. It also contains the post office of Ardersier, under Fort George station, and shares in the advantages of the parish and Free churches and the public school of Ardersier. Pop. (1841) 716, (1861) 842, (1871) 845, (1881) 882.—Ord. Sur., sh. 84,1876.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Petty ScoP Inverness Shire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Ardersier |
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