> Subject: MELVICH > Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:16:45 +1000 > From: "judy rogers" <jrog44@hotmail.com> > To: SCT-SUTHERLAND-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi Everyone, > > Is there someone on the list that can tell me where I would find a place > called Melvich. > > Regards, > > Judy ----------- Hi Judy, Melvich is just west of "Reay", at the inlet by "Portskerry" In "Murray's Handbook Scotland" 1894, it says "...from Reay Village 18 mi...MELVICH*. a dull and uninteresting moor, bare even of heather, succeeds to this, beyond which STRATHY HEAD may be seen stretching out into the North Sea. It is a pleasant relief to reach the edge of this tableland, and allow the eye to rest upon the village of 21 mi. STRATHY* which occupies a pleasantly sheltered valley, well watered by the river of the same name. At its mouth a good number of salmon are netted every year but the stream is too small for first rate fly-fishing. FYI, it says..."Duke of Sutherlands "Bighouse" formerly the seat of the Mackay's, a branch of the Reay family" is in close proximity. >