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- Tain was a parliamentary burgh, combined with Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall and Wick in the Northern Burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918.
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Tain was a parliamentary burgh, combined with Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall and Wick in the Northern Burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918.
Tain Burghs was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832, sometimes known as Northern Burghs.
Sep 17, 2018 · The committee declared that the Michaelmas elections of 1706 and 1707, and the additions of councillors in October 1707 and June 1708 were ‘palpable encroachments upon the constitution . . . of Tain’ and contrary to ‘the setts of other well governed burghs’.
The population increased from 2,212 in 1821 to 3,056 in 1831, and there was a council of 23, of whom 18 had property in the burgh and the others carried on trade there.3 Tain, situated on a bank near the southern shore of Dornoch Firth, in a ‘fertile agricultural district’, had no harbour and ‘little or no manufacture’, but it was ...
Adam and Portland declined to lay out money for an assault on Tain until Macleod’s complaint over the conduct of the local elections had been decided in the court of session. The verdict of March 1791 was adverse and Macleod and Mackenzie considered Tain ‘forever gone from us’.
Tain has a ruined chapel of 13th century, and the collegiate church of St Duthus, founded in 1471. Good golfing links are adjacent to the town. It is one of the Wick District of Parliamentary Burghs, which returns 1 member. Tain through time. Tain is now part of Highland district.
A royal, parliamentary, and police burgh, the town stands 3 furlongs from the southern shore of the Dornoch Firth, and has a station on the Highland railway (1864), 25¾ miles NE of Dingwall and 44 NNE of Inverness.
