A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Orrin, a stream of Urray parish, SE Ross-shire, rising at an altitude of 2450 feet above sea-level, and 2¼ miles N of Loch Monar. Thence it flows 26 miles east-north-eastward, till it falls into the Conan opposite Brahan Castle, 4 miles SSW of Dingwall. During the first 35/8 miles of its course it expands into Loch na Caoidhe (8¼ x 1½ furl.) and Am Fiar Loch (5 x ¾ furl.; 998 feet); and lower down it traces for 3½ miles the northern boundary of Kilmorack parish, Inverness-shire. A very fitful stream, subject to violent freshets, it chiefly traverses a mountain glen, called after it Glen Orrin, but eventually enters the low flat lands of Strathconan, and here yields very good salmon fishing. A wooden bridge across it, behind Urray Manse, erected at the expense of Mr M`Kenzie of Seaforth, was swept away by the flood of 1839, when a stronger bridge was built at the cost of the county. A fertile tract around the confluence of the Orrin and the Conan used sometimes, for weeks or even months, to be so flooded as to present the appearance of a lake; but now, by means of drainageworks constructed in 1 869, is entirely free from overflow.—Ord. Sur., shs. 82, 83, 1882-81.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a stream" (ADL Feature Type: "streams") |
| Administrative units: | Ross Shire ScoCnty |
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