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Re: Location of the village of Banks, Caithness
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 13 March 18 16:09 GMT (UK) »

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Re: Location of the village of Banks, Caithness
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 13 March 18 22:47 GMT (UK) »
Rosebank shown on the Thomson Atlas of Scotland 1832 (http://maps.nls.uk/view/74400135), and also in greater detail on the Wick Town Plan 1872 (http://maps.nls.uk/view/74417060).
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Re: Location of the village of Banks, Caithness
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 13 March 18 22:54 GMT (UK) »
and a link to an early map where it's called Rose Bank  :)

http://maps.nls.uk/view/74400135#zoom=5&lat=5552&lon=7417&layers=BT

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Re: Location of the village of Banks, Caithness
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 14 March 18 11:05 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks to everyone for all the info/maps - I was in Wick about 3 years ago and visited the whisky distillery,
Banks - Wick, Caithness
Dunbar - Co Antrim-Birkenhead-Liverpool
Kemp - Woodnesborough,Kent-Liverpool
Long - Ireland-Liverpool
Clarke - Ireland-Liverpool
Weldon - Dublin-Birkenhead
Thomas - LLandysilio,Anglesey-Liverpool
Roberts -Denbighshire-Liverpool
Spain-Woodnesborough, Kent
Seed - Ballyculter, Co. Down
Graham-Ayrshire-Ballyculter-Liverpool


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Re: Location of the village of Banks, Caithness
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 14 March 18 14:35 GMT (UK) »
Ee Rosebank Hotel in Week, burned doon a short ago!  ;D

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