INVER   is situated on the south shore of the Dornoch Firth, between the Royal Burgh of Tain and Portmahomack, within an area that once supported FIVE airfields.  Bombing raids were made with the Halifax bombers of 76 Squadron, against the Tirpitz and other German warships in Norwegian waters. Practice bombing is carried out on a near daily basis at the bombing range near Tain.  Low flying aircraft can be hazardous!  Remains of the various airfields can be seen quite clearly while driving along the public roads in the Easter Ross area.

     The village has a primary school, a post office and general store and a very nice convivial public house.  The pub has a song named after it.  Other than that, Inver appears to have  nothing to recommend it but a visit to the primary school will show the results of a survey taken after the end of the war which was actually put into print regarding the military use of the land during the 1939-45 war.  The booklet won the  Skene Award (a major triumph for primary schools in Scotland).

    In as much as the land was used for military manoeuvres in World War II, it was also used for the 1914-18 war and during that period, the area around Tain was teeming with troops.  One might envy those that were billeted in the Balblair Distillery at Edderton

Farming

     The area is arable.  A visitor to the Black Isle Show told me that he expected Scotland to be a land of trees and mountains and heather and gorse.  He was agreeably surprised to find so much agriculture on his first visit to the area 

     Today, if you look to the west along the south shore line,  you may just see a long pipe going into the sea from what was Tain Airfield.  The other end will be attached to a tug somewhere towards the east, several kilometers in fact.  Filming of this and other related oil industry fabrications are captured on film by DGSFilms Edderton 

 Last Updated:  2nd, May, 2000