Dornoch Firth

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View over the Dornoch Firth
Dornoch Firth Bridge

The Dornoch Firth is an inlet of the North Sea on the Scottish east coast. It extends about 35 km in an east-west direction into the land mass. The coast is sparsely populated, with Tain and Dornoch being the most important cities. On the north side of the water there is also Skibo Castle . The river Oykel flows into the head of the Dornoch Firth . The Cromarty Firth inlet runs 10–20 km south . Administratively, the Dornoch Firth belongs to the Council Area Highland .

Since 1991, the water near the coast has been crossed by the Dornoch Firth Bridge . The A9, the Highlands' most important trunk road, runs over this . Until 1957, a ferry , the Meikle Ferry , operated about two kilometers to the west on the same route. In 1809 99 people were killed when the ferry went down .

literature

  • Carl Stapleton, John Pethick: Coastal processes and management of Scottish estuaries. Part I: The Dornoch, Cromarty and Beauly / Inverness firths. Scottish Natural Heritage Review, No. 50, Edinburgh 1996. Digitized on the Scottish Natural Heritage website, PDF file, 15.4 MB (English)

Web links

Commons : Dornoch Firth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry Oykel, River in the Gazetteer for Scotland, accessed on July 16, 2016 (English)
  2. ↑ Ferry boat hook. Explanations of a boat hook kept in the local history museum in Dornoch, which is believed to have come from the ferry. BBC website , accessed July 16, 2016

Coordinates: 57 ° 52 ′  N , 4 ° 14 ′  W