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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
PORTREE HOTEL Portree Hotel Revd. [Reverend] John Darroch
Revd. [Reverend] A. Martin
Angus MacPherson
023 A large four storey building slated and in excellent repair some of the lower storey is partly occupied by shops but there is great accomodation for visitors upstairs - Property of Lord Macdonald.
CALEDONIAN HOTEL [Portree] Hotel Revd. [Reverend] John Darroch
Revd. [Reverend] A. Martin
Angus MacPherson
023 A two storey building slated and in good repair. it has good accommodation for tradesmen or second rate visitors but is never resorted to by Tourists except the other Hotels are filled Lord Macdonald Proprietor
FREE CHURCH [Portree] Free Church Revd. [Reverend] John Darroch
Revd. [Reverend] A. Martin
Angus MacPherson
023 A large plain building slated & in good repair it was erected in [1854] and is seated for [blank] Property of the Trustees of the Free Church of Scotland

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County of Inverness -- Ph. [Parish] of Portree -- Skye

Transcriber's notes

The present building, designed by John Hay of Liverpool, was built as a Free Church in 1854, became the United Free Church in 1900 and the Church of Scotland in 1929 - Source - Scotlands Churches Trust.

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