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Caithness ( , ) is a registration county, lieutenancy area and historic local government area of Scotland.
Caithness has a land boundary with the historic local government area of Sutherland and is otherwise bounded by sea. The land boundary follows a watershed and is crossed by two roads, the A9 and the A836, and one railway, the Far North Line. Across the Pentland Firth ferries link Caithness with Orkney, and Caithness also has an airport at Wick. The Pentland Firth island of Stroma is within Caithness.
The name was also used for the earldom of Caithness and the Caithness constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (1708 to 1918). Boundaries are not identical in all contexts, but the Caithness area is now entirely within the Highland council area.
Caithness is one of the Watsonian vice-counties, subdivisions of Britain and Ireland which are used largely for the purposes of biological recording and other scientific data-gathering. The vice-counties were introduced by Hewett Cottrell Watson who first used them in the third volume of his Cybele Britannica published in 1852. He refined the system somewhat in later volumes, but the vice-counties remain unchanged by subsequent local government reorganisations, allowing historical and modern data to be more accurately compared. They provide a stable basis for recording using similarly-sized units, and, although grid-based reporting has grown in popularity, they remain a standard in the vast majority of ecological surveys, allowing data collected over long periods of time to be compared easily.
Caithness may refer to:
- Caithness (county of Scotland)
- Caithness (local government district, Highland region)
- Caithness (UK Parliament constituency)
- Earl of Caithness
Caithness was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918.
From 1708 to 1832 Caithness and Buteshire were paired as alternating constituencies: one of the constituencies elected a Member of Parliament (MP) to one parliament, the other to the next. The areas which were covered by the two constituencies are quite remote from each other, Caithness in the northeast of Scotland and Buteshire in the southwest.
From 1832 to 1918 Caithness was represented continuously by its own MP.
Before the Act of Union 1707, the barons of the shire or sheriffdom of Caithness elected commissioners to represent them in the unicameral Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of Estates. After 1708, Caithness alternated with Buteshire in returning one member the House of Commons of Great Britain and later to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Usage examples of "caithness".
Abbey of Klais Mairi, chosen by Abbess Annora to begin a new Order of the Grey Marys in Caithness: Sister Siaran, Sister Besa, and the newest member of the order, Sister Alethea.
King of Man, the Lord of the Western Isles, the Mormaers of Caithness and Argyll, abbots and bishops and silver-haired Norse jarls and dark Pictish chieftains.
Caithness will send forth, by fastest steed, two criers to give warning to two other towns, and Dumbarton will do the same.
He told them how the McKane had found him again at Caithness and attacked his foster family.
As to the why of it, your da summoned us to look after Caithness in his absence, Jillian.
The only thing I remember about Caithness is that the food was good and your da was kind.
Had he never come to Caithness, he would never have brought destruction on his heels.
He stood with Kaley on the front steps of Caithness, watching three horses fade into swirls of dust down the winding road.
She waved at the small town clustered protectively near the walls of Caithness that spilled into the valley beyond.
He had procured a wagon for the purpose, and they would return to Caithness at first light.
Praise the saints Grimm had been there, and praise Odin for his special talents, or Caithness would have been singing funeral dirges and weeping.
And if they descended upon Caithness again, what harm would this blessed place suffer?
He was well hidden at Caithness for years, so I thought it best to leave well enough alone.
Hope made men do foolish things, such as staying at Caithness when all his heightened senses were clamoring that despite finding no sign of McKane, he was being watched and a confrontation was imminent.
Then he turned around again, compelled to Caithness by a force beyond his understanding, a force that reached into the very mar row of his bones.