Freswick, a township, a mansion, and a bay in Canisbay parish, Caithness. The township, near the coast, 4 miles S of John o' Groat's House, and 12 N of Wick, has a girls' public school, and fairs on the second Tuesday of February and of December. Freswick House, on the SW shore of the bay, at the mouth of the Gill Burn, 1 mile SE of the school, is the property of Thomson-Sinclair of Dunbeath, John o' Groat's House and Bucholie Castle are on the estate. Freswick Bay, measuring 1¼ mile across the entrance between Skirsa and Ness Heads, and ¾ mile thence to its inmost recess, has a half-moon form, and lies completely exposed to the E. - Ord. Sur., sh. 116, 1878.
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