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Dornoch

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Dornoch

Town and former burgh in Highland unitary authority, Scotland, on the northern mouth of the Dornoch Firth, 47 km/29 mi northeast of Inverness; population (2001) 1,200.

In pre-Reformation times Dornoch was the seat of the Bishops of Caithness. In the 13th-century Gilbert de Moravia built a cathedral in the burgh, which was restored in 1837.

Scotland's last execution for witchcraft took place in Dornoch in 1722.



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