Crown, Inverness

The Crown (from the Scottish Gaelic: A' Chrùn) is an area situated upon the plateau of a hill immediately to the south of the city centre of Inverness.Lying immediately above the city centre of Inverness on a hill, the area is one of the oldest in the city and prior to a period of rapid house-building, consisting of highly fertile strips of land, the produce of which served both the medieval castle and the Parish Kirk, the city's principal high church.

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