Talk:Lairg

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I imagine Lairg is on the A836 road? Laurel Bush 14:18, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC).

Yep, that'd be right. Not sure if this link will work properly, but it shows which roads run through, or lead to Lairg... namely the A836, A839, and the A838. — PMcM 23:59, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

town?[edit]

Even by Highland standards does Lairg really qualify as a town or has ever been one? Ok it's a service centre for a wider area but the centre of the village is the parking for recycling bins on the loch shore. This link on the council website calls it a village [1]. Any source for calling it a town?--JBellis (talk) 08:43, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to have been established around 1809-20. at the suggestion of William Young, one of the two main influences on the development of the Sutherland estate, to provide a location where the estate's former inhabitants, who had built their lives around cattle farming and were now being "cleared" for sheep, might settle and become crofters. The first big sheep tenements had been esatblished around 1809. The current character of the settlement is also affected by the raising of the level of Loch Shin by hydro-electric developments around 1954. The older settlements were on the higher ground and had been there since the time of the hut circles. There had been a church since 1222Delahays (talk) 02:32, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]