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Strathpeffer is the home of Caberfeidh Camanachd Club who play their home games at Castle Leod. The team currently play in shinty's National Division One. The team have twice won shinty's premier competition, the Camanachd Cup; this was in 1934 and 1939. The 2017 champions are Newtonmore Camanachd, who beat Lovat Camanachd 3-2 in the Final, to claim their 32nd Camanachd Cup. They play at Eilean Bheannchair, AKA The Eilan, Newtonmore.
During the English Civil War, Tickhill Castle's importance as a local centre of resistance led to its ‘slighting’ (intentional disabling) by Parliament after the defeat of the royalist forces there in 1648. Conisbrough Castle, long disused as a fortress by this time, escaped such a fate.
The solo piano work Farewell to Stromness was composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CHCBE (1934 – 2016). Sir Peter died on 14th March 2016, aged 81, at Sanday in the Orkney Islands.