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Cromarty on the Black Isle, in Cromartyshire

Cromarty Cromarty is a town and royal burgh and the county town of Cromartyshire. It stands at the tip of the Black Isle on the North Sea coast. This little town is architecturally important for its Georgian merchant houses that stand within a townscape of Georgian and Victorian fishermen's cottages in the local vernacular style: an outstanding example of a 18th/19th century burgh. The thatched house with crow-stepped gables in Church Street, in which the geologist Hugh Miller was born (in 1801), still stands. To the east of the burgh is Cromarty House, occupying the site of the old castle of the earls of Ross. The port has what claims to be the United Kingdom's smallest vehicle ferry, the Cromarty Rose running across the Firth to Nigg in Ross-shire. (Read more)