Dornoch is a community, seaside resort, and former royal burgh in the area of Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. It rests on the north coast of the Dornoch Firth, close to where it opens into the Moray Firth to the eastern. The community is within the Highland city government council area. The town is near the A9 road, to which it is linked by the A949 as well as the B9168. The town also has a turf air strip ideal for little airplane as well as helicopters. Dornoch was a parliamentary burgh, integrated with Dingwall, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick in the Northern Burghs constituency of your house of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and also of the Parliament of the UK from 1801 to 1918. Cromarty was contributed to the checklist in 1832. The constituency was a district of burghs known additionally as Tain Burghs up until 1832, and after that as Wick Burghs. It was stood for by one Member of Parliament. In 1918 the constituency was abolished and also the Dornoch part was combined into the then brand-new area constituency of Caithness and Sutherland.