Ross and Cromarty Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
area in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
About Ross and Cromarty
Ross is an ill-defined area, a wedge of territory with Sutherland to its north and the historic county of Inveness-shire south. It was an earldom by the 9th century, and in the 11th sat uncomfortably between the Vikings and Macbeth, the real-life ruler of Moray. It extended west out to sea to include Lewis, while Inverness-shire included Harris - those are one and the same island, but with no connecting road until modern times, and were reached from different ferry ports. But if Ross was ill-defined, the county of Cromarty-shire was an utter dog's breakfast, a scattering of exclaves far and wide. Ross and Cromarty were combined as a county from 1892, and remained so until 1975. They were then absorbed into Highland Region and lost Lewis, which joined Harris in the new entity of Western Isl
Ross and Cromarty Travel Guide Sections
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