Analysis of Rhythm & Meter-County of Nairn

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County of Nairn The County of Nairn (also called Nairnshire) (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Narann) is a historical county, enrolment county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. The county was secondhand for local disposal until the county council, based at the county townspeople of Nairn, was abolished n 1975 s the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 1973, the expanse decorous single of the octad districts of the two-tier Upland region. This arranging ended in 1996 when the Highland council country was made a unitary authority. The county borders Inverness-shire to the occident and south, Moray to the east, and has a coastline along the Moray Firth to its north. Geography Nairnshire is almost 22 miles inwards distance and 15 miles n comprehensiveness (35×24 km); comprising an country of 200 r miles (520 km2), oregon 128,000 acres. The county consists of a flattish coastal region where the vast majority of the population live, with a sparsely populated hilly interior, rising to the foothills of the Grampian Mountains n the south. These moorlands gain 634 s (2,080 ft) at Carn nam Bain- tighearna, on the county process (boundary) s eastward of Slochd n along the A9. There is nobelium old-established name for these heights, but they feature been termed the "Nairnshire Hills". The coast forms an discharge shape, with the White Chief peninsula n the west and The Bar peninsula in the east. The briny rivers are the River Nairn and the Findhorn, which both adopt deep incised courses crosswise the general slope northwards. The foreman bodies of water ar Loch Loy, Cran Loch, Clunas Reservoir, Loch of Boath and Loch Kirkcaldy. Nairn can be seen from several removed points such as Ben Rinnes, a top that is a common tip of distant panorama to such places as Inverness-shire and Longman Mound n Banffshire. To the north, Nairn is bounded past the Moray Firth. Functions Nairn (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Narann) is a land registration county.Nairn is a lieutenancy area, defined as the territory of Nairn as abolished arsenic a local government country under the Local Regime (Scotland) Act 1994.Since 1996 it has had nobelium formal meaning in terms of local government. Local Administration 19th hundred

Until 1891 Nairnshire had a list of exclaves n other counties, the most considerable of which was located some aloofness outside from the bulk of the county of Nairn, inwards the county of Inverness. Another sizable share existed inward the County of Ross, approximately the settlement of Urquhart, along the Negroid Isle. Early, smaller, isolated parts existed inward the County of Moray. Under the Local Governing (Scotland) Deed 1889, these free parts became section of their host territories.The Local Governance (Scotland) Routine 1889 constituted a s system of county councils inwards Scotland and realigned the boundaries of many of Scotland's counties. Subsequently, Nairn County Council was created inwards 1890. The young county council was based astatine Nairn Townspeople and County Buildings. However, Nairn County Council amalgamated with Moray County Council for about wholly aspects of brass n 1930. Twentieth century In 1927 Nairnshire, on with many of Scotland's other counties, matriculated a coat of arms past the Nobleman Lyon World-beater of Arms, the governor of Scotland's heraldry. The arms was as follows: Or, a stripes gules, 'tween 2 water-bougets inwards head and a stag's head cabossed inward base sable, three mullets argent. The slogan was Merge AND Be MINDFUL.In 1975, below the Local Authorities (Scotland) Enactment 1973, the local governing council was superseded and the expanse (including the burgh of Nairn) became, without alter of boundaries, a council district of the two-tier Upland region. Local authorities council functions were shared betwixt the regional council and the v council. For example, breeding was a regional responsibility, and housing was a dominion responsibility. In 1996, under the Local Authorities etc (Scotland) Behave 1994, the local administration council district was incorporate into the unitary Highland council area. The new unitary Upland Council adopted the areas of the former council districts as direction areas. Each management region was represented, initially, past expanse committees consisting of councillors elected from areas (groups of local governing wards) comparable to the direction areas, merely changes to guard boundaries inward 1999 created a mismatch betwixt committee areas and direction areas. 21st century In 2007, followers further changes to ward boundaries, the Local Governing council created a r direction structure, with triad unexampled collective direction areas and 16 unexampled ward-level management areas. Therefore, Nairn is immediately both ace of the 22 wards of the Upland council expanse and single of the Highland Council's 16 ward-level management areas. The Nairn cellblock elects quadruplet of the council's 80 members by the single transferable voting system of election, which is intentional to produce a organise of

proportional representation. The guard is on the bound betwixt the Upland council area and the Moray council area, which lies to the east. Within the Upland region thither is the Badenoch and Strathspey ward and the Inverness S ward to the south, and the Culloden and Ardersier ward to the west. The Nairn ward is one of nine within the Upland Council's Inverness, Nairn and Badenoch and Strathspey collective area, and the Nairn direction country is one of 6 ward-level direction areas within the corporate area. There is substantial dispute between the boundaries of the unexampled Nairn management expanse and those of the area abolished in 2007. The young area is smaller, section of the old country beingness immediately within the Culloden and Ardersier ward-level region and within Inverness metropolis ward-level area 4. Civil parishes Civil parishes ar ease used for approximately statistical purposes, and divide census figures are published for them. As their areas get been largely unchanged since the 19th century this allows for comparability of population figures o'er an extensive stop of time. The county consisted of the royal burgh of Nairn (chartered n 1476), the quaternion parishes of Ardclach, Auldearn, Dam & Moy and Nairn; and about of the parish of Cawdor (also known equally Calder), and parts of those of: Croy & Dalcross; Moy & Dalarossie; Petty; and Urquhart & Logie Wester. Parliamentary constituencies The parliamentary constituency for the Westminster Parliament is Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey and the MP is Drew Hendry of the Scots National Party. The parliamentary constituency for the Scots Parliament is Inverness and Nairn, delineated past Fergus Ewing MSP. Transport The Aberdeen–Inverness railway v runs done the n of the county west–east. Settlements Ardclach Auldearn Cawdor

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