Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Valtos

Valtos, a village on the E coast of Kilmuir parish, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, 13½ miles N by E of Portree. It may be called the home of the crofter agitation, and was the scene of a great disturbance on 30 Jan. 1885.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kilmuir ScoP       Inverness Shire ScoCnty

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