Dornoch
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Image:Dornoch - Highland dot.png Dornoch[1] is a royal burgh and seaside resort in Sutherland on the east coast of the Scottish Highlands, and the north shore of the Dornoch Firth.
The town is near the A9 road, to which it is linked by the A949 and the B9168.
Dornoch boasts the thirteenth-century Dornoch Cathedral, the Old Town Jail and a famous golf course. It is also notable as the last place a witch was burnt in Scotland. Her name was Janet Horne; she was tried and condemned to death in 1727. There is a stone, the Witch's Stone, commemorating her death, inscribed with the year 1722. Legendary golf course designer Donald Ross began his career as a greenkeeper on the Royal Dornoch links.
On January 13, 2005, Dornoch was granted Fairtrade Town status.
Parliamentary burgh
From 1708 to 1918 Dornoch was a parliamentary burgh, combined with Dingwall, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick in the Northern Burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Cromarty was added to the list in 1832. Known also as Wick Burghs, the constituency was represented by one Member of Parliament. In 1918 the constituency was abolished and the Dornoch component was merged into the then new constituency of Caithness and Sutherland.
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