Thrumster
Thrumster is a crofting township on the main A99 road between Wick and Inverness. It is the nearest village to Wick. The transmission mast used to broadcast BBC television and radio signals to Caithness was located here until 1960.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Flaxton, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Thrumster (Caithness)” and “Thrumster, Caithness”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Broch of Yarrows.
Broch of Yarrows
Archaeological site
Photo: Bubobubo2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Broch of Yarrows is an archaeological site, which is situated 2 miles southwest of Thrumster.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sarclet and Wick.
Sarclet
Village
Photo: Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sarclet is a remote clifftop crofting township, situated on the east coast of Caithness, lying slightly north of Loch Sarclet in the Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Wick
Photo: Jameslwoodward, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wick is a town in Caithness in the far northeast of Scotland, with a population of 6870 in 2020. The name comes from Norse vik, meaning a bay. The town first grew up north of the river: in the 19th century the fishing port of Pulteney was established to the…
Papigoe
Village
Papigoe is a village on the east coast of Caithness, at the head of Broad Haven Bay in the Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Papigoe is situated 5 miles northeast of Thrumster.
Thrumster
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.3905° or 58° 23′ 26″ northLongitude
-3.1357° or 3° 8′ 9″ westElevation
243 feet (74 metres)Open location code
9CCR9VR7+5POpenStreetMap ID
node 4643719689OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Thrumster” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Thrumster”
- Dutch: “Thrumster”
- Swedish: “Thrumster”
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Highlights include Rockhill Standing Stone and Thrumster Mains Broch.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Thrumster”. Photo: Flaxton, CC BY-SA 4.0.