Place:Balintore, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland

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NameBalintore
TypeVillage
Coordinates57.757°N 3.912°W
Located inRoss and Cromarty, Scotland     ( - 1975)
Also located inHighland Region, Scotland     (1975 - 1996)
Highland (council area), Scotland     (1996 - )
See alsoFearn, Ross and Cromarty, Scotlandparish in which it is located
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Balintore (from the Scottish Gaelic: Baile an Todhair meaning "The Bleaching Town") is a village near Tain in Easter Ross in Scotland. It is located in the parish of Fearn in the traditional county of Ross and Cromarty, which is now in the Highland Council Area.

It is one of three villages on this northern stretch of the Moray Firth coastline - Hilton, Balintore, and Shandwick - which are known collectively as the "Seaboard Villages". Local employment has long been based on fishing, but this is now only a small part of the local economy.

From The Gazetteer for Scotland

"...A former fishing village with a harbour built in the 1890s, Balintore expanded after 1978 when oil from the Beatrice Field [in the North Sea] was brought ashore for processing by a pipeline linked to nearby Shandwick."
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Research Tips

Seaboard History Website, an online archive of the social history of the Seaboard Villages; Hilton, Balintore, and Shandwick
Down to the Sea, an online version of a history book of Hilton, Balintore, and Shandwick

For further information of a genealogical nature, see the parish of Fearn.

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