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  • ...'County of Banff''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] on the [[Moray Firth]] and reaching from that rough coastline, stretching inland up the va The rugged mountain areas of Banffshire give way further north to more rolling country with fine glens and some areas of ric
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  • ...Most of the other streams are among the mountains, whence they find their way to Loch Lomond, the principal being the Inveruglas, Douglas, Luss, Finlas The Romans came here. Though Agricola advanced to the Moray Firth, the legions did not stay in the Highlands. However under Antoninus
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  • ...east coast; and on the north-east and east, between the mountains and the Moray Firth, are [[Nairnshire]], [[Morayshire]]. [[Banffshire]] and [[Aberdeenshi In the days when Johnson and Boswell came this way, there were no roads in the county much outside Inverness, except for the m
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  • ...stipulated that they were to retain their manners and customs, and in this way the south-eastern lowlands became the centre from which Anglo-Saxon and Nor Thirty-one years later at Burghmuir, the English were defeated by the Earl of Moray in 1334.
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  • ...Kingdom|shire]] of the [[Highlands]]. It lies on the south coast of the [[Moray Firth]] between [[Nairnshire]] to the west and [[Banffshire]] to the east. ...nd a corresponding part of Inverness-shire interposes itself between coast Moray and its larger detached portion.
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  • ...yggvasson, King of Norway in 995 when he stopped at [[South Walls]] on his way from Ireland to Norway. The King summoned the ''earl'' Sigurd the Stout{{#t ...the death of the child princess Margaret, Maid of Norway in Orkney on the way to Scotland created a disputed succession which led to the Wars of Scottish
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  • ...through Perthshire: the road from Perth to [[Strathspey]] (now the A9) by way of [[Pitlochry]], that from Perth to [[Braemar]] and the [[River Dee, Aberd ...h once more under the Emperor Severus in 208; he reached the shores of the Moray Firth but was unable effectually to subdue the tribesmen. When the Romans
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  • ...ings, Sutherland was conferred on Hugh Freskin (a descendant of Freskin of Moray), whose son William was created Earl of Sutherland in 1228 by Alexander II. ...the forceful eviction of people from their homes by the landowners to make way for large sheep farms. Sutherland suffered more than most parts of the Hig
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  • | LG district= Moray | constituency= Moray
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  • | LG district= Moray | constituency= Moray
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  • |LG district= Moray |constituency= Moray
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  • ...ern extremity of the [[Great Glen]], where the [[River Ness]] enters the [[Moray Firth]], its name coming from the Gaelic ''Inbhir Nis'' meaning ''mouth of ...ess empties into the Inverness Firth, the south-western extremity of the [[Moray Firth]]. On the Firth are the city's harbour and port facilities.
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  • ...chill Barriers connect the island to [[Burray]] and [[South Ronaldsay]] by way of [[Lamb Holm]] and [[Glims Holm]]. ...of these eroding mountains, stretching from [[Shetland]] to the southern [[Moray Firth]].<ref>McKirdy, Alan Gordon, John & Crofts, Roger (2007) ''Land of Mo
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  • |LG district=Moray |constituency=Moray
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  • |constituency=Moray |LG district=Moray
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  • The Glen cuts from [[Inverness]] on the [[Moray Firth]], to [[Fort William]] at the head of [[Loch Linnhe]]. It follows a l ...try tracks, canal paths with the occasional stretch of road The Great Glen Way was officially opened on the 30th of April 2002 by H.R.H. Prince Andrew, Ea
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  • ...und 1,650 people. The village stands picturesquely on the shores of the [[Moray Firth]] in the shadow of [[Ben Bhraggie]]. Across the burn are fine woodla ...ng visitors. Dunrobin Castle, the seat of Clan Sutherland, is only a short way outside and features a falconry display. Golspie Links Caravan Site is a st
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  • ...e]] or north by way of [[Glen Avon]] and the [[River Spey]] to reach the [[Moray Firth]].
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  • ...m. In the southwest, beyond the [[Straits of Dover]], the North Sea gives way to the [[English Channel]] connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east th ...phin with young.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Bottlenose dolphin with her young in Moray Firth]]
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  • ...combination of factors including the breaking of the traditional Highland way of life following the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the potato famine, the Highl ...igrate, where to, and in which order. The first arrivals would prepare the way for their kinsmen who continued to arrive in the chain migration.<ref>Amand
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