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Balixtore, Ross and Cromarty

Historical Description

BALINTORE, a village, in the parish of Fearn, county of Ross and Cromarty, 2½ miles (E. by S.) from Fearn; containing 313 inhabitants. This is a fishing-village, situated on the coast of the Moray Firth, which has here a flat and generally sandy shore. On the south is the ferry of Cromarty, distant about four miles.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, 1851 by Samuel Lewis