Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Mound, The

Mound, The, ry. sta., SE. Sutherland, in par. and 3½ miles SW. of Golspie; P.O., called Mound; so named from a sluiced embankment here across Loch Fleet, constructed in 1816 at a cost of £12,500, for the purpose of carrying the public road across the lagoon.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Golspie ScoP       Sutherland ScoCnty
Place names: MOUND     |     MOUND THE     |     THE MOUND

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