Armadale, Sutherland
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | KW |
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Armadale (Scottish Gaelic: Armadal, Scots: Airmadale) is a small village on the north coast of Scotland, in the council area of Highland. The village is part of the parish of Farr, in the county of Sutherland. Armadale is about 30 miles west of the town of Thurso, off the A836 road. The population of Armadale is 50 and shrinking, with 32% of the population being retired, and the remaining 68% population are working or at school.
Armadale is first mentioned in charters in the 13th century as part of the parish of Farr. There was a small fishing hamlet consisting of two or three houses north of the village before the year 1600 called Port Moir.
William Honyman (whose mother, Margaret, was a daughter of John Mackay of Strathy) bought the estate from his grandfather about 1779 and built a new mansion at Armadale. The Armadale estate under the ownership of Honeyman was the first to bring the North Country Cheviot to Sutherland. William Honeyman, as a judge of the Court of Session took the title of “Lord Armadale of Strathy”. Honeyman removed the tenants that lived on both sides of the Armadale burn and settled them where the village is now before 1800.
In 1812 the Armadale Farm extended from the burn of Kirtomy in the west to the water of Strathy in the east, some six miles along the seashore and four miles inland and contained about fifty acres of green pasture and arable land. Honeyman sold the estate to the Duke of Sutherland in 1813 for the sum of £25,000 On a map of 1823 by John Thompson and William Johnson both the old Armadale and the new Armadale Fishing Village are shown. The present layout of the village was designed in 1855. 3 kilometres west of Armadale is the deserted township of Poulouriscaig, this was a post “Clearance” village of seven houses that was settled in the 1830s and the last family had left by 1935 and moved into the present village.
Since 2006, five new houses have been erected, two by Highland Council to encourage more people into the area, and three private builds. Armadale has an old school house, doctors house (both of which are now owned privately properties) and a small village hall, used for the Strathy and Armadale Grazing Committee meetings and such. Armadale also has a Doctor's Surgery and the south end, which is the main surgery for places as far out west as Skerray and east as Melvich.
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