Urray
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|---|---|
  Urray Location within the Ross and Cromarty area | |
| OS grid reference | NH507527 |
| Council area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Marybank |
| Postcode district | IV6 7 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
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Urray (Scottish Gaelic: Urrath) is a scattered village and coastal parish,[1] consisting of Easter, Old and Wester Urray and is located in the county of Ross in the Scottish council area of the Highland.[2] Urray is also a parish in the district of Wester Ross and Cromarty. It comprises the parishes of Carnoch and Kinlochlychart, with the ancient parish of Kilchrist.[3]
Urray is located 2 miles northwest of Muir of Ord and 1.5 miles east of Marybank. The closest town is Dingwall to the north-east.
The ruined Fairburn Tower was a castle of the Clan Mackenzie.[4]
During the war, the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit had a sawmill and camp named Fairburn nearby, at Aultgowrie. A NOFU member who died during his time in Scotland is buried at Urray Cemetery.
- ^ "Urray". The Gazetteer for Scotland. University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- ^ Microsoft; Nokia. "Urray" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- ^ "Urray". GENUKI. The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland. 1968. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- ^ David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross, Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland, vol. 3 (Edinburgh, 1889), pp. 462-5