Part of the Haggis Highway trail and part of a series of events as shown below, please do not look for or log this cache before Friday 5th October.
Thank you and happy caching from the Highland Haggi team.
To celebrate the creation of this section of the Haggis Highway events will take place on 5th, 6th and 7th October 2012.
The events are as follows:
Wick ~ Bar Blether GC3PQ71 - Friday 5th October from 19:00
Wick ~ Dinner GC3PQ89 - Saturday 6th October from 17:00
Dunbeath ~ Lunch GC3PQ8R - Sunday 7th October 10:00~12:00
Portgower was built in the nineteenth century as clearance village by the Duke of Sutherland who employed a French factor.
It was the factor's idea to have Portgower as compact village on a grid system similar to the villages he was used to in France. that is why the houses are numbered not logically like a street in most places but with each house bearing the number of the croft land. Unfortunately this set up which might have assisted community spirit meant that most of the crofters had to walk some distance to their land to work, unlike most crofts in the Highlands where the house is situated on the land being worked.
The land that was worked can be seen south of the village.