Historylinks Heritage Trail

The starting point for the trail is the Historylinks Museum.

A leaflet, available at the Museum reception desk, includes a map of the trail and details of the main locations to be visited.

You can explore the town by walking around with an eye open for detail: a street name here and architectural detail there, all add up to give a fascinating picture of our past. Dornoch is unusual, in that so much of our heritage is accessible.

Visit a grocer's (Grant & Son, in Cathedral Square) where the same family has been serving customers since 1825. Stroll among the gravestones in the churchyard, looking for familiar names. Contemplate your fate in a cell in the jail (now a shop). Imagine how poor wretches met their deaths at the hands of the executioner at several sites.

pdf file of Heritage Trail Leaflet (330 KB)

Last updated: 19 August, 2005