Scrabster
Scrabster is a small settlement on Thurso Bay in Caithness on the north coast of Scotland. It is some 1+1⁄2 miles from Thurso, 22+1⁄2 miles from Wick, 112 miles from Inverness and 271.7 miles from Edinburgh.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Holburn Head Lighthouse and Thurso Lifeboat Station.
Holburn Head Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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Holborn Head is a rocky headland on the north-facing Atlantic coast of Caithness, Scotland. It forms the western termination of Thurso Bay. The name Holborn apparently comes from the Old Norse Hóllborg, meaning "hill fort".
Thurso Lifeboat Station
Building
Thurso Lifeboat Station is located at Scrabster Harbour, near the town of Thurso, in the administrative area of Highland, historically Caithness, on the north coast of mainland Scotland.
Scrabster Castle
Ruins
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Scrabster Castle was a castle, near Burnside, about 0.5 miles north and west of Thurso, and 0.5 miles south of the village of Scrabster, Highland in Scotland, south of Thurso Bay. It is on an eroding promontory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burnside and Thurso.
Burnside
Quarter
Burnside is a predominantly residential area of Thurso, Caithness, in the Highland council area of Scotland. Much of the district was built up during the latter half of the 20th century, and this development began in the region of the bridge which carries the A9 road over Wolf Burn, at grid reference ND106691.
Thurso
Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thurso is a town in Caithness on the far north coast of Scotland, with a population of 7390 in 2020. The name probably refers to the deity Thor, and this area was Norse until the 13th century.
Thurso East
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Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thurso East is a coastline section of the Atlantic 0.5 miles east of Thurso, Caithness, northern Scotland. It is situated at the mouth of the River Thurso, overlooked by the remains of Thurso Castle. Thurso East is situated 2 miles southeast of Scrabster.
Scrabster
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.61102° or 58° 36′ 40″ northLongitude
-3.55491° or 3° 33′ 18″ westElevation
23 feet (7 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SCROpen location code
9CCRJC6W+C2OpenStreetMap ID
node 632709832OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2638339Wikidata ID
Q679476
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Scrabster” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Scrabster”
- Chinese: “斯克拉布斯特”
- Chinese: “斯卡拉布斯特”
- Danish: “Scrabster”
- Dutch: “Scrabster”
- French: “Scrabster”
- German: “Scrabster”
- Hungarian: “Scrabster”
- Irish: “Sgrabastair”
- Irish: “Sgrabstal”
- Japanese: “スクラブスター”
- Japanese: “スクラブスター港”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Scrabster”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Scrabster”
- Norwegian: “Scrabster”
- Polish: “Scrabster”
- Scots: “Scraibster”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sgrabastair”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sgrabstal”
- Swedish: “Scrabster”
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