Talk:Inverness

Reference #22 provides, no doubt, evidence that the city has been dinied arms. I'm no expert on the subdivisions of council in Scotland, me being English, but I though this may be relevant: http://books.google.com/books?id=0EBiwcy4x5EC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA159,M1 showing a coat of arms for the Burgh of Inverness. Is it still in use? I'm not really interested, but I thought it should be mentioned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jarry1250 (talk • contribs) 15:41, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

The old royal burgh of Inverness did indeed have arms, but they reverted to the crown when the burgh was abolished in 1975. Some community councils have been allowed to re-matriculate the arms of former burghs with certain changes added, but AFAIK I know this has not been possible as the town (sorry city!) is divided into a number of community council areas. Lozleader (talk) 18:45, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Would it be possible to add the Inverness Flag somewhere in the page, I think it would make a fine addition. User: Paul Zawkiewicz 15:52, 28 October 2019 (UTC)}}

The climate information was removed by an anonymous user because the information was for Kinloss. What there is to understand here is that most climate recording stations are actually outside of the cities they intend to collect the information for. The recording station for Inverness and area is in fact located nearby in Kinloss. There is no station in Inverness. When the information was on the wiki page, it was properly labeled as Kinloss for people to realize this. There does not seem to be a significant difference in geography that would alter the climate information in any meaningful way between Kinloss and Inverness and I believe that is why the government approved this location for the station.

I am reverting the removal of this information.Air.light (talk) 06:59, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Hypertone, you change the information back and state correct information "Kinloss is not Inverness" but do not address what I have mentioned here. The weather monitoring station for Inverness and area is located in Kinloss. Will you please consent to this change? In my opinion it will improve this article to have the climate information for the area included in it.Air.light (talk) 05:56, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Kinloss is both considerably further east and more exposed to the Moray Firth. To compare the two in terms of their climate is completely improper. Moreover, the weather station at Kinloss is not situated there in order to monitor the climate of Inverness (they'd have put the weather station somewhere in Inverness proper if that was the salient purpose!). Rather, it is there to monitor the climate of Kinloss, a military base, which is common practice throughout the whole of the United Kingdom. Inverness is some 30 miles from Kinloss which is meteorologically quite considerable in UK terms. Until a proper alternative is sourced I suggest it remains excluded from the article.

Hypertone (talk) 00:31, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

I also removed a stat was wasn’t sited saying Inverness has 69 days of falling snow, which seems drastically overstated and wasn’t able to find any source that backed it up other than content farms which seemed to scrape this article. Maybe if it included sleet, it could be closer to accurate, but again was not able to substantiate that. The mountains in Scotland get a decent bit of snow, however Inverness is a low lying area, and 69 days seems inaccurate given my knowledge of the area...but if anyone can find a reliable source feel free to add it and clarify that statement TechAtlas (talk) 07:30, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Here are records for the Cairngorms, the mountains which get a lot more snow than Inverness...and their days of snow falling are around 5-15 per year, which definitely seems to confirm the inaccuracies of the removed quote

https://www.onthesnow.com/scotland/cairngorm/historical-snowfall.html TechAtlas (talk) 07:39, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Someone vandalised it and put a bunch of 69s in the population numbers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Atomaeons (talk • contribs) 10:43, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

I coming from Norwegian Wikipedia, and checking out this article I notice that Torvean is linked to Torrean civilization. Context indicate that Torvean is a place near Inverness... Please check this out. --Finn Bjørklid (talk) 17:42, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

"The only surviving modern remnant is a clock tower."

Although this clock tower is approx. in the location of Cromwell's Citadel I think it's actually the remnant of a cloth factory from the 1700s which became a rope factory in the 1800s. This is detailed in the book Slaves and Highlanders by David Alston. Wigigigi (talk) 13:43, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

I made the alteration I suggest above. Wigigigi (talk) 17:15, 10 April 2023 (UTC)