Rogart
Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox UK place Rogart (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell, Template:Langx, meaning "great enclosed field")[1] is a parish in Sutherland, Highland, Scotland. The parish was the home of Major Andrew MacDonald, who fought in the French and Indian War.[2]
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It was originally a scattered crofting parish centred on the parish church of St Callan's, until the opening of the Rogart railway station at Pittentrail Template:Convert to the southeast. The locus of the parish shifted when a new 'industrial' village grew around Pittentrail following the arrival of the railway in 1886.[3]
The village of Golspie is Template:Convert east of Rogart whilst Lairg is 10 miles west.
References
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- ↑ Gaelic and Norse in the Landscape: Placenames in Caithness and Sutherland. Scottish National Heritage.
- ↑ Annals, North British Society
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