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Nairn ( ; Gaelic: ''Inbhir Narann'') is a town and former burgh in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is an ancient fishing port and market town around east of Inverness. It was the county town of the wider county of Nairn also known as Nairnshire. The town is now best known as a seaside resort, with two golf courses, award winning beaches, a community centre/mid-scale arts venue ( Nairn Community & Arts Centre),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home )〕 a small theatre (called The Little Theatre〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nairn Drama Club )〕) and one small museum, providing information on the local area and incorporating the collection of the former Fishertown museum. ==History== King James VI of Scotland visited the town in 1589 and is said to have later remarked that the High Street was so long that the people at either end spoke different languages, Scots and Gaelic. The landward farmers generally spoke Scots and the fishing families at the harbour end, Gaelic.〔Thomson, David (1998) (''Nairn in Darkness and Light'' ). Vintage. ISBN 978-0-09-959990-6〕 Nairn, formerly split into Scottish Gaelic- and Scots-speaking communities, was a town of two halves in other ways. The narrow-streeted fishertown surrounds a harbour built by Thomas Telford while Victorian villas stand in the 'West End'. It is believed that the Duke of Cumberland stayed in Nairn the night before the battle of Culloden. In 1645, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the battle of Auldearn was fought near the town, between Royalists and Covenanters. It was not until the 1860s that Nairn became a respectable and popular holiday town. Dr. John Grigor (a statue of whom is located at Viewfield) was gifted a house in this coastal town and spent his retirement there. He valued its warm climate and advised his wealthy clients to holiday there. Following the opening of the Nairn railway station in 1855, new houses and hotels were built in the elegant West End. The station is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line. Originally this was the last stop on the line from London due to the inhospitable terrain on what is now the main Dava branch line to Inverness. Nairn has an expanse of sand beaches that were used extensively in training exercises for the Normandy landings during World War 2. Notably during this period two German spies who had been dropped by U-boat in the Moray Firth were arrested at Nairn Railway Station attempting to board a train to Inverness. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nairn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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