Cromarty

Cromarty Scottish Gaelic Cromba
Houses on the coast of the Cromarty Firth
Coordinates	57 ° 41 ′  N , 4 ° 2 ′  W Coordinates: 57 ° 41 ′  N , 4 ° 2 ′  W
Cromarty
Residents	719 2001 census
administration
Post town	CROMARTY
ZIP code section	IV11
prefix	01381
Part of the country	Scotland
Council area	Highland
British Parliament	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
Scottish Parliament	Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch

Cromarty is a civil parish, town and former Royal Burgh in Ross and Cromarty in the Scottish Highlands . It is on the Cromarty Firth . In the 2001 census, Cromarty had 719 inhabitants.

history

Cromarty is a seaport on the southern mouth of the Cromarty Firth across from Invergordon . Until 1890 Cromarty was the county seat of County Cromartyshire .

The name Cromarty is said to come from the Gaelic word crom (crooked) and from bati (bay) or àrd (height), meaning "curved bay" or, as an allusion to the high rocks that frame the entrance to the fjord, "bend between the heights "mean. This is where the title of Earldom of Cromartie comes from, which was recorded as Crumbathyn in 1264 .

The town grew around its harbor, which was originally used as a ferry port, for the export of hemp fiber and for the landing of herring by fish trawlers. During the First World War, the port served as the naval base of the British naval forces. On December 30, 1915, the armored cruiser HMS Natal exploded in the vicinity, killing numerous people.

Cromarty is architecturally significant, in particular for its Georgian-style commercial buildings and fishermen's houses in the local interpretation of Victorian . As an excellent example of a burgh of the 18th and 19th centuries, Cromarty is considered "the jewel in the crown of Scottish Vernacular Architecture".

After winter storms in 2012, remains of the medieval castle from the 12th century were rediscovered. As a result, a civic archaeological project began to examine the remains of buildings and streets on the eastern outskirts.

Education and Research

Cromarty has one elementary school, Cromarty Primary School, which is housed in an old Victorian building that used to be a high school. In the former lighthouse of Cromarty, which went out of service in 2006, the Lighthouse Field Station of the Zoological Faculty of the University of Aberdeen has been located since 1990 . Her research focus is in particular the interaction between anthropogenic environmental changes and the behavior and population dynamics of sea birds and marine mammals.

Individual evidence

1. ^ AD Mills: The Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names . Oxford University Press, 1991, p. 140.
2. ↑ David Ross: Prince views a 'jewel in the crown' . In: The Herald , October 1, 1994. Retrieved July 21, 2014. 
3. ^ Project Background . Retrieved July 21, 2014.
4. ^ University of Aberdeen Lighthouse Field Station : 25 years of teaching and research in Cromarty