Urray
Urray (Scottish Gaelic: Urrath) is a scattered village and coastal parish,[1] consisting of Easter, Old and Wester Urray and is located in the county of Ross in the Scottish council area of the Highland.[2] Urray is also a parish in the district of Wester Ross and Cromarty. It comprises the parishes of Carnoch and Kinlochlychart, with the ancient parish of Kilchrist.[3]
Urray
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Urray Location within the Ross and Cromarty area | |
OS grid reference | NH507527 |
Council area | |
Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Marybank |
Postcode district | IV6 7 |
Police | Scotland |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
Urray is located 2 miles northwest of Muir of Ord and 1.5 miles east of Marybank. The closest town is Dingwall to the north-east.
Churches
As with many Highland parishes Urray gravitated to the Free Church of Scotland after the Disruption of 1843.
These links provided three Moderators of the General Assembly for the Free Church (see below).
The parish church remains the main place of burial for the parish.
The Free Church serves the wider parish of Muir of Ord.[4]
Notable people
- Rev John Macleod, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1917
- Rev Archibald Donald Cameron, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland 1928/29 was born and raised in Urray[5]
- Rev Roderick Finlayson, minister of Urray, was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland 1945/6[6]
References
- "Urray". The Gazetteer for Scotland. University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- Microsoft; Nokia (4 January 2018). "Urray" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- "Urray". GENUKI. The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland. 1968. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- https://www.muirofordfreechurch.co.uk/
- http://ecclegen.com/ministers-c/#CAMERON,%20ARCHIBALD%20D.
- Herald (Scottish newspaper) 21 Feb 1989