Fodderty

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Fodderty
Gaelic: Fodhraitidh
Cromartyshire
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View towards Knockfarrel from Fodderty
Location
Grid reference: NH532592
Location: 57°35’57"N, 4°27’29"W
Data
Post town: Dingwall
Postcode: IV15
Local Government
Council: Highland

Fodderty is a small hamlet in Cromartyshire, near the east coast and close to Dingwall, Ross-shire's county town. The wider parish of Fodderty lies mostly in Ross-shire, but encompasses two of the parcels of Cromartyshire, including the southernmost point of the county in Blackmuir Wood to the south of Strathpeffer. It has a total population of 2,818.

The small hamlet of Bottacks is located a mile to the west of Fodderty hamlet and just to the east is Brae or Brea, formed in 1777 from the lands of Davochcarn, Davochmaluag and Davochpollo, long held by a branch of the Mackenzies, for which reason it is a part of Cromartyshire.[1]

The growing town of Dingwall now encroaches on Fodderty.

References

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  1. William John Watson, Place names of Ross and Cromarty (Inverness Northern Counties Pub. 1904), at page 100

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