SPW033787 SCOTLAND (1930). Cromarty, general view, showing Church Street and Cromarty Harbour. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north.

'The jewel in the crown of Scottish vernacular architecture', Cromarty is one of the best preserved historic towns in the Highlands and an outstanding example of an 18th /early 19th century Scottish burgh.



Its character comes from a rich mixture of small fisherman's cottages, fine Georgian town houses and Victorian commercial buildings, featuring architectural detail such as crow-stepped gables, slate roofs, marriage stones and datestones. Cromarty is home to the thatched fisherman's cottage where the influential self-taught geologist Hugh Miller was born in 1802 (http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/14437/details/cromarty+church+street+hugh+miller+s+cottage/).