Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Inver

Inver, a fishing village in Tain parish, Ross-shire, on the S side of the Dornoch Firth, 6¼ miles E by N of Tain. It includes Inverskinnerton, in Tarbat parish; has 27 boats and 85 fisher men and boys; and in 1832 lost over a third of its inhabitants through a few weeks' ravages of the cholera. Pop. (1871) 450, (1881) 396, of whom 37 were in Tarbat.—Ord. Sur., sh. 94, 1878.


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

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Feature Description: "a fishing village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ross Shire ScoCnty

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