Description | Town Council Minutes, 1848-1975 Medical Officer of Health Annual Reports, 1953-1969 Court Records, 1868-1891;1933-1956 Declarations of Allegiance to the Crown signed by the Councillors of Cromarty, 1868-1959 Town Clerk Correspondence, 1926;1954-1975 Photograph, 1975 Assessment Roll, 1940-1952;1974-1975 Summary of Accounts, 1974-1975 Rating Estimates, 1974-1975 Abstracts of Accounts, 1917-1975 Cromarty Harbour Trust, 1938-1958 Council House Rent & Rates Register, 1971-1972;1974-1975 The Burgh of Cromarty Report by The School of Town & Country Planning, Edinburgh College of Art, 1962 Decreet of Division of the Church of Cromarty, [1758] Minutes of the meetings of the Curators of Roderick McKenzie of Fairburn, [1760-1774] Inventories of Writs, [1615-1752] Cromarty Reading Club List, [1832] |
Administrative History | The Royal Burgh of Cromarty dates from at least the twelfth century. Since the reign of Robert I, the burgh was associated with the earldom of Ross, following the forfeiture of which in 1475, the status of the burgh is obscure until a charter of 1593, which newly erected Cromarty into a royal burgh. In 1672 Parliament accepted the resignation of Cromarty as a royal burgh and it remained a burgh of barony thereafter. Cromarty Town Council was abolished in 1975 under the terms of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1973 (c. 65). Its powers were assumed by Highland Regional Council and Ross and Cromarty District Council. |