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Extract from the Golspie Travel Guides:
Ten miles north of Dornoch on the A9 lies the straggling red-sandstone town of
GOLSPIE
, whose status as an administrative centre does little to relieve its dullness. The main reason to stop in Golspie is to look around
Dunrobin Castle
(April to mid-Oct Mon-Sat 10.30am-4.30pm, Sun noon-4.30pm; June-Sept daily until 5.30pm; 6), overlooking the sea a mile north of town. Approached via a long tree-lined drive, this fairy-tale confection of turrets and pointed roofs - modelled by the architect Sir Charles Barry (designer of the Houses of Parliament) on a Loire chteau - is the seat of the infamous Sutherland family, at one...
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