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The west coast of Inverness-shire was traditionally referred to as the Rough Bounds due to its remoteness and inaccessibility. It remains wild and sparsely populated today. [37] The terrain in Inverness-shire is generally mountainous, with numerous lochs scattered throughout the county. Some of the lochs have been enlarged to use as reservoirs.
The Ordnance Survey began producing six inch to the mile (1:10,560) maps of Great Britain in the 1840s, modelled on its first large-scale maps of Ireland from the mid-1830s. This was partly in response to the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 which led to calls for a large-scale survey of England and Wales .
Inverness-shire: Medieval. Absorbed ancient parishes of Eilean Fhianain and Arisaig (aka Kilmorie) in 1614. Partly in Inverness-shire and partly in Argyllshire until 1895, when the Argyllshire parts were removed to form the new parish of Arisaig & Moidart. [15] 32,156 1,144 Ardoch: Perth and Kinross: Perthshire
This includes devolved institutions, such as Visit Wales, [2] Natural Resources Wales, [3] and the Welsh Government itself, [4] [5] [6] using different sets of Wales' regions. Wales is most commonly sub-divided into between two and four regions, with a North–South divide, and North, Mid, South East and South West division being common.
Inverness-shire, 1708 to 1918; Inverness, 1918 to 1983; Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber, 1983 to 1997; Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, 1997 to 2005; Ross, Skye and Inverness West, 1997 to 2005; Inverness Burghs was a district of burghs constituency, covering the parliamentary burghs of Inverness, Fortrose, Forres, and Nairn.
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Ross eventually became a fully-fledged shire in 1661, after a couple of earlier abortive attempts. It was briefly a shire between 1504 and 1509, formed from part of Inverness-shire by an act of parliament during the reign of James IV, the sheriff to sit at Tain or Dingwall. [18] [19] Ross was restored to Inverness-shire in 1509. [20]
The 1889 Act also led to parish and county boundaries being adjusted to eliminate cases where parishes straddled county boundaries. The parish of Small Isles straddled Argyll and Inverness-shire, with the islands of Muck, Rùm, Canna, and Sanday being in Argyll but Eigg in Inverness-shire. The whole parish was placed in Inverness-shire in 1891.