Northern Burghs

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Northern Burghs, known also as Wick Burghs, was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 to 1918. It was represented by one Member of Parliament.

The constituency was created to represent the parliamentary burghs of Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick. Cromarty was added to the list in 1832. In 1918 the burghs were merged into Caithness and Sutherland (Dornoch and Wick), Orkney and Shetland (Kirkwall) and Ross and Cromarty (Cromarty, Dingwall and Dornoch).