Sutherland ( Scottish Gaelic: Cataibh) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland. Its county town is Dornoch. [1] Sutherland borders Caithness and Moray Firth to the east, Ross-shire and Cromartyshire (later combined into Ross and Cromarty) to the south and the Atlantic to the north and west. Directions Satellite Photo Map Wikivoyage Wikipedia Photo: Colin Wheatley, CC BY-SA 2.0. Localities in the Area Altnaharra Village Photo: Donald Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0. Altnaharra is a small hamlet in Sutherland in the Highland region of northern Scotland. Sutherland Type: County with 12,700 residents
Sutherlandshire 1896 Leslieville Historical Society
1774 - John HOME - Survey of Assynt. 1776 - George TAYLOR and Andrew SKINNER - Survey and map of the roads of. Scotland 1815 - Anon. - Sketch of the the county of Sutherland showing the boundaries & divisions of the earldom of Sutherland. 1815 - Large folded coloured map of the Sutherland estate showing divisions between the farms, 1815 Sutherland, historic county, northern Scotland. It faces the North Sea on the east and the Atlantic Ocean on the north and northwest, where Cape Wrath, with its magnificent cliffs, is mainland Great Britain's northwestern extremity. It lies entirely within the Highland council area. The shires of Scotland ( Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachdan na h-Alba ), or counties of Scotland, are historic subdivisions of Scotland established in the Middle Ages and used as administrative divisions until 1975. The Sutherland Estate maps can be searched for on these pages: Estate Maps of Scotland, 1730s-1950s - Sutherland View the estate maps with a County Maps of Scotland, 1730s-1950s - Sutherland Coasts of Scotland on marine charts, 1580s-1900s Mapmakers and surveyors View the maps in shelfmark order: Dep.313 (primarily 1770-1861) (primarily 1861-1920)
Map of Sutherland with location and dates of land reclamation (Contains Download Scientific
The following 25 files are in this category, out of 25 total. Caithness and Sutherland with Scottish counties.svg 690 × 1,039; 1,004 KB Ordnance Survey Sheet NC 14 Scourie, Published 1970.jpg 10,072 × 8,818; 25.7 MB Ordnance Survey Sheet NC 16 Sheigra, Published 1966.jpg 10,080 × 9,959; 25.98 MB Sutherland, Scotland Click on the map for other historical maps of this place In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Sutherland like this: The Sutherland Collection - the Sutherland Papers are the massive archive created by the Leveson-Gower family, Marquesses of Stafford and Dukes of Sutherland. It is the single most important archive collection relating to past life in Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent. However, because of the wealth and activities of the family, the collection. Since 2007, Highland Council has divided up its area rather differently into three operational areas. For the council's purposes, Sutherland now forms a part of the "Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross" operational area. Information about plus maps and images of the traditional county area of Sutherland on Undiscovered Scotland.
Sutherland Shire Antique Scottish County Map A3 Size Etsy
County maps, 1580s-1950s. Maps of the whole county or region, providing an overview of the physical and human landscape. For more detailed maps of rural areas, see estate maps or Ordnance Survey maps from the 1840s. The principal content relates to counties in Scotland, with a small coverage of counties in northern England. The first thing that strikes you about Sutherland is the sheer diversity in its landscape, which can be divided into three main areas: the coastal regions; the inland glens and heather covered moorland; and the flow country, a marshy peatland that is the oldest and largest single ecosystem in Britain.
Sutherland and Caithness make up the remote northern part of Scotland, bordered by Ullapool in the south-west, the historical county of Rosshire in the south (Easter and Wester Ross) and Dornoch in the south-east. This is a large area with only a few, mostly single track roads, crossing the Highland Glens. Select a county from either of the lists below, or see the1890-1975 county map of Scotland. If you don't know which county a parish or town lies in, try an online gazetteer covering the whole of the UK. To find which GENUKI pages cover more modern administrative areas and the "Counties of Cities" see Historical Geography on the Scotland page.
Trips for Touring Sutherland, Orkney, Skye, Inverness and other surrounding visits Sutherland
And feel free to if you have discovered other useful Scottish genealogy resources that could usefully be highlighted within ScotlandsFamily.com. Good luck with your Scottish ancestor searching ! Scottish Parish maps of Caithness, Sutherland, Ross and Cromarty county from Scotlandsfamily, a Scottish genealogy service to help people find free. Sutherland is a county in the north of Scotland, bounded on the north by the North Sea, on the east and north-east by Caithness-shire, on the south by Ross-shire and the Firth of Dornoch, on the south-east by the Moray and Dornoch Firths, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
