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The
Royal Burgh of
Dornoch (
Gaelic:
Dòrnach, ) is a town and
seaside resort in the
Highlands of
Scotland, on the north shore of the
Dornoch Firth, close to where it opens into the
Moray Firth to the east. The town is within the
Highland local government council area, and within the
county of
Sutherland.
The town is near the
A9 road, to which it's linked by the
A949 and the
B9168.
Dornoch boasts the thirteenth-century
Dornoch Cathedral, the Old Town Jail, and the previous Bishop's Palace which is now the well-known hotel,
Dornoch Castle and a notable
golf course, the
Royal Dornoch Golf Club, named the 5th best golf course outside the
United States in 2005 by
Golf Digest magazine. It is also notable as the last place a
witch was burnt in Scotland. Her name was
Janet Horne; she was tried and condemned to death in 1727. There is a stone, the Witch's Stone, commemorating her death, inscribed with the year 1722. Legendary golf course designer
Donald Ross began his career as a
greenkeeper on the Royal Dornoch
links.
Dornoch used to be connected to the main railway network at The Mound via a
light railway. The railway was opened on
2 June 1902. Stations on the line were
Dornoch, Embo, Skelbo, Cambusavie Halt and The Mound Junction. The stations were closed on
13 June 1960.
On
December 21,
2000, the
pop star Madonna had her son Rocco christened in
Dornoch Cathedral, the day before her wedding to
Guy Ritchie in nearby
Skibo Castle.
On
January 13,
2005, Dornoch was granted
Fairtrade Town status.
Parliamentary burgh
Dornoch was a
parliamentary burgh, combined with
Dingwall,
Kirkwall,
Tain and
Wick in the Northern Burghs
constituency of the
House of Commons of the
Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918.
Cromarty was added to the list in 1832.
The constituency was a
district of burghs known also as
Tain Burghs until 1832, and then as
Wick Burghs. It was represented by one
Member of Parliament. In 1918 the constituency was abolished and the Dornoch component was merged into the then new
county constituency of
Caithness and Sutherland.
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