Cromarty is a town, civil parish and former royal burgh in Ross and Cromarty, in the Highland area of Scotland. Situated at the tip of the Black Isle on the southern shore of the mouth of Cromarty Firth, it is 5 miles (8 km) seaward from Invergordon on the opposite coast. In the 2001 census, it had a population of 719.
Cromarty
Etching of Cromarty from Scotia Depicta by James Fittler
Coat of arms of Cromarty and District Community Council
Cromarty Courthouse
A royal burgh was a type of Scottish burgh which had been founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter. Although abolished by law in 1975, the term is still used by many former royal burghs.
Falkland in Fife, created a royal burgh in 1458
Burghs by 1153