Dingwall (Inbhir Pheofharan within Gaelic) (Ordnance Survey ) is a royal burgh in the highlands of Scotland. It erst functioned as an east-coast port, but at present lies inland. the town it used to be that boasted a little castle, the birthplace of Macbeth, and in its present-contemporary fringe lies an additional - Tulloch Castle, area of which can date back to the 12th-century building.

People as of 2001: 5,521 [http://www.highland.gov.uk/plintra/iandr/cen/sz/dingwall.htm]

Dingwall has got the railway station on what is now known as a Far North Line since circa 1865. It too serves a Kyle of Lochalsh Line, with a junction between them lines existence placed inside a town.

Dingwall traditionally served when a shire town of the county of Ross and Cromarty. It lies touching a head of the Cromarty Firth where a vale of a Peffery unites by having the alluvial lands at the mouth of the Conon, Xiv miles northwest of Inverness.

Its title, from either a Scandinavian Thingvöllr (field or even meeting-place of the thing, or local assembly - compare Tynwald, Tingwall, Thingwall in the British Isles alone, plus several others through northern Europe) preserves the Viking connections of the town; the Gaels knew it when Inbhir Pheofharan (pronounced, some, Innirfyawharrin & meaning "the mouth of the Peffery").

A 18th-century row house, & occasionally remains of the ancient mansion of the when right earls of Ross however survive. An obelisk, 51 feet high, was erected across a grave of Sir George Mackenzie, First Earl of Cromartie, touching a parish church of St Clement. It was affected by subsidence, becoming called a "Leaning Tower", & was replaced by the great deal little replication in the early years of the 20th century. Yet possibly this is okay, marked by signs expression "Keep Out" on the evidence that these are the unsafe structure.

King Alexander II created Dingwall a royal burgh (pronounced a equivalent when "borough") within 1226, & James IV renewed its charter. On the top of Knockfarrel (Gaelic, cnoc (hill); faire (watch over or even guard)), the hill astir Leash miles to the west, stands the big & super complete vitreous fort using wall.

Parliamentary burgh

From either 1708 to 1918 Dingwall was a parliamentary burgh, combined by owning Dornoch, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick in the Northern Burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Cromarty was added to the list inside 1832. Known when well as Wick Burghs, a constituency was represented by a single Member of Parliament. Inside 1918 a constituency was abolished & a Dingwall component was merged into Ross and Cromarty.

Extra data is from either a 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.