Dornoch is a town, seaside resort, and previous royal burgh in the county of Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. It lies on the north shore of the Dornoch Firth, near to where it opens into the Moray Firth to the east. The town is within the Highland local government council area. The town is near the A9 road, to which it is connected by the A949 and also the B9168. The community also has a grass air strip suitable for little aircraft and also helicopters. Dornoch was a legislative burgh, incorporated with Dingwall, Kirkwall, Tain as well as 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 United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. Cromarty was added to the checklist in 1832. The constituency was a district of burghs known additionally as Tain Burghs up until 1832, and afterwards as Wick Burghs. It was stood for by one Member of Parliament. In 1918 the constituency was eliminated and the Dornoch part was combined right into the after that brand-new area constituency of Caithness as well as Sutherland.