Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Nairn

Nairn, river; rises in Inverness-shire at a point 10 miles E. of Loch Ness, and flows 38 miles NE. through Inverness-shire and Nairnshire to the Moray Firth at the town of Nairn.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Inverness Shire ScoCnty       Nairnshire ScoCnty
Place: Nairn

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