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The town's borough council was abolished when Caithness became part of the Highland Region in 1975. A community council was created at the same time.
The River Wick flows through the town and a commercial harbour is established on the south side of the river esturary. A railway links Wick with southern Britain and with Thurso, the only other burgh in Caithness, and Wick Airport is on the town's northern outskirts. Caithness General Hospital is located in the town, as are the main offices of The John O Groat Journal and the Caithness Courier. A Sheriff Court hears cases arising in Caithness and Sutherland.
South of the river much of the town was developed during the 19th century herring boom, and this area is known as Poulteney Town. The Old Poulteneywhisky distillery is in this area. So was the first Caithness Glass factory. (Caithness Glass has now left both the town and Caithness).
During the herring boom Wick became a major European herring port and kippering centre, and history of this era is preserved in the collections of the Heritage Centre.
Caithness was formerly a district within the Highland region from 1975 to 1996 and a local government county with its own county council from 1891 to 1975.
Wick (Inbhir Uige in Gaelic) is an estuary town in Caithness, in the Highland area of Scotland, on the main highway (the A99-A9 road) linking John O Groats with southern Britain.
Wick is within the parish of Wick and the parish has that of Latheron to the south, those of Watten and Bower to the west, and that of Canisbay to the north.
Wick was a parliamentary burgh, combined with Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall and Tain in the Northern Burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918.
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