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"CREICH, a parish in the county of Sutherland, Scotland. It contains the village of Bonar Bridge, and extends about 30 miles in a south-easterly direction, from Benmore-Assynt, to within 3 miles of Dornoch. Its breadth is from 2 to 10 miles, and it is bounded by Larg on the N., Assynt on the W., the river Oikell and the Dornoch Firth on the S., and the parish of Dornoch on the E. The surface is chiefly mountain and moorland, and pastures great numbers of black cattle and sheep. There are several lakes and much natural wood, chiefly oak and birch. Whinstone is quarried, and the salmon fisheries of the Shin, one of the tributaries of the Oikell, are very valuable. Near the church is an obelisk 8 feet long and 4 feet broad, said to mark the grave of a Danish chief. A fortification on the Dun of Creich is said to have been erected in the 12th century by an ancestor of the Earl of Ross. The parish, which is traversed by four excellent roads, is in the presbytery of Dornoch, and in the patronage of the crown and the Duke of Sutherland. The stipend of the minister is £209. The parish church stands 3 miles S.E. of Bonar Bridge, and there is a royal bounty mission at Rosehall. There are also two free churches, one at Creich and the other at Rosehall."

Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)

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Presbyterian / Unitarian
Creich, Church of Scotland
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Gazetteers

Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, Samuel Lewis - 1851

CREICH, a parish, in the county of Sutherland, 11½ miles (W. N. W.) from Tain; containing, with the village of Bonar, 25S2 inhabitants. This place is famed for a contest which happened in the eleventh or twelfth century between the Scots and the Danes, at Druimleah, near Bonar-Bridge, whence the invaders, after being completely routed, retired to their ships at Portnacoulter, at present called the Meikle Ferry. It is an extensive parish, in length about forty miles, and six miles in- average breadth, and contains about 150,000 acres. The general appearance of the surface is hilly, approximating in many parts to the character of a mountainous district, and a small proportion only of its area is under cultivation, the rest being covered with natural wood and heath. At Ledmore is a fine oak-wood of about 150 acres; and in several other parts is a considerable quantity of natural wood, as well as of plantations. A large extent of ground on the estates of Skibo and Pulrossie was planted with fir and larch about forty or fifty years ago, to which about 1500 acres have been added by the present proprietor, with an intermixture of oak and other forest-trees. Other plantations have been made within the last few years, and the extent of the whole of them throughout the parish is now calculated at 2500 acres. The rivers are, the Shin, the Oykell, a considerable stream, and the Cassley: the two last join at the southern extremity, and form the Firth of Dornoch; they all contain salmon, which are regularly taken, and sturgeons are also sometimes seen in the Shin. There are likewise several lakes, the most considerable of which are Migdol, Gour, and Elst, all abounding with small good-flavoured trout.

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