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Lybster
Village (19th Century) (1802)
Site Name Lybster
Classification Village (19th Century) (1802)
Canmore ID 8631
Site Number ND23NW 30
NGR ND 2478 3553
NGR Description Centred ND 2478 3553
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/8631
- Council Highland
- Parish Latheron
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND23NW 30 Centred ND 2478 3553
The location of the proposed slaughterhouse (SM/1920/163) cannot be established at time of entry (AC 25 July 2001).
Note (July 2013)
Telford, in a report to the British Fisheries Society in 1790, recommended a small improvement to the natural safe harbour at Lybster, but it was not until 1802 that the (present) village was founded.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Hermann Moll's map of the 'Shires of Caithness and Sutherland. With Strath Navern which is part of Sutherlandshire' of 1745 depicts and names 'Libester'.
National Library Scotland, EMS.b.2.1 (30) and NLS http://maps.nls.uk/view/?id=241.
