Doll

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Doll
Gaelic: An Dail
Sutherland
Beach south of Brora - geograph.org.uk - 129075.jpg
Looking south from Brora towards Doll.
Location
Grid reference: NC888029
Location: 58°0’6"N, 3°52’57"W
Data
Post town: Brora
Postcode: KW9 6
Local Government
Council: Highland

Doll is a scattered mixed crofting township and rural village two miles southwest of Brora, on the A9 coast road, on the east coast of Sutherland.

The main road artery of the A9 has bypassed Doll to the south.

Around the township

Doll, in the Parish of Clyne, is a scattered crofting township, located south of the River Brora with Brora located at the other side river to the north-east. Doll consists of a large flat plain, in a triangular shape, with the longest edge following the course of the river. To the southwest lies the village of Golspie.

John Bartholomew described the hamlet as:

Doll, hamlet with school, Clyne par., SE. Sutherlandshire, 2 miles W. of Brora.[1]

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