Ord of Caithness

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Proper noun

Ord of Caithness

  1. A headland (Ord Point) and high granite mass in Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ND0517).
    • 1950 January, Arthur F. Beckenham, “With British Railways to the Far North”, in Railway Magazine, page 6:
      This deviation was necessary to avoid the high land round the Ord of Caithness, and the building of bridges over deep valleys near the coast.
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