Birds View of Staxigoe harbour Photograph

STAXIGOE 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 population of Staxigoe, Wick and many hamlets and villages along the coast resulted in the birth of herring fishing. Inexperienced men went out into the ferocious German Ocean (now the North Sea) in small boats powered only by sail and oar - many were never seen again.

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