Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ferry, Little

Ferry, Little, a ferry (1 furlong broad) on the mutual boundary of Dornoch and Golspie parishes, Sutherland, across the neck of water between Loch Fleet and the sea, 4¼ miles N by E of Dornoch town. An action was fought on the N side of it, in 1746, between the Jacobites and the militia.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a ferry"   (ADL Feature Type: "transportation features")
Administrative units: Golspie ScoP       Sutherland ScoCnty
Place: Littleferry

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