Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Findon

Findon, an estate in Urquhart and Logie-Wester parish, Ross-shire, on the SE shore of Cromarty Firth, 5 miles NE of Conan Bridge. Traversed by a burn of its own name, that makes a fine cascade of 20 feet in a yawning bosky gorge, it belongs to Mackenzie of Mountgerald, and by improvements in the way of draining, fencing, and building, had its rental raised from £3774 in 1867 to £4624 in 1876.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "an estate"   (ADL Feature Type: "land parcels")
Administrative units: Cromarty ScoCnty       Ross Shire ScoCnty

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