Cromarty
Sign in to saveCromarty (; , ) is a town, civil parish and former royal burgh in Ross and Cromarty, in the Highland area of Scotland. Situated at the tip of the Black Isle on the southern shore of the mouth of Cromarty Firth, it is seaward from Invergordon on the opposite coast. In the 2022 census, it had a population of 672.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.map_type
- Ross and Cromarty
- UK place.static_image_name
- Cromarty from Gallow Hill - geograph.org.uk - 4854915.jpg
- UK place.official_name
- Cromarty
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Cromba
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NH785675
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Highland
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Ross and Cromarty
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch
- UK place.post_town
- CROMARTY
- UK place.postcode_district
- IV11
- UK place.postcode_area
- IV
- UK place.dial_code
- 01381
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Cromarty (; , ) is a town, civil parish and former royal burgh in Ross and Cromarty, in the Highland area of Scotland. Situated at the tip of the Black Isle on the southern shore of the mouth of Cromarty Firth, it is seaward from Invergordon on the opposite coast. In the 2022 census, it had a population of 672.
==History== The name Cromarty variously derives from the Gaelic crom (crooked), and from bati (bay), or from àrd (height), meaning either the "crooked bay", or the "bend between the heights" (referring to the high rocks, or Sutors, which guard the entrance to the Firth), and gave the title to the Earldom of Cromartie. In 1264, its name was Crumbathyn.