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Staxigoe Rock, Staxigoe, Caithness, Scotland, UK. The rock stands by the Harbour. Staxigoe is a former fishing village, located 2 miles east of Wick on the north-eastern coast of the former county of Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Its name derives from Norse, "the inlet of the stack". It was once the largest herring salting station in Europe, but its fishing industry went into decline with the construction of a larger port in central Wick. The name comes from two Norse words - "GJA" or "GOE" meaning an inlet, and "STAKKR" meaning a rock or stack, hence "Staxigoe", the inlet of the stack. At the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, a few unscrupulous landlords began evicting tenants from land which had been theirs since the times of the clan system. Sheep had arrived in the Highlands, and the "Highland Clearances" began. Men were sent to war out of loyalty to their chief, and those who returned found their homes and crofts burned and their families scattered to the four corners of the earth. Those who were left - women, children, and the old people - had to walk the 100 miles or more from the hills and straths of Sutherland to the bleak and barren coasts to try to find settlements and a means of living. The growth in the population of Staxigoe, Wick and many hamlets and villages along the coast resulted in the birth of herring fishing. Inexperienced men

Staxigoe Harbour.

At one time, Staxigoe was the largest, herring station in Europe and the industry created work for the gutters, coopers, basket and sail-makers, carpenters and not least, the fishermen themselves. In the early days, as many as 50 boats could anchor in Staxigoe harbour.

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