Red Head
Red Head is a cape in Highland Council, Scotland. Red Head is situated nearby to the locality Nethertown, as well as near Uppertown.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stroma Lighthouse and MeyGen.
Stroma Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stroma is an uninhabited island in the Pentland Firth, between Orkney and the mainland of Scotland. It forms part of the civil parish of Canisbay in Caithness, in the Highland council area.
MeyGen
Power station
MeyGen is a tidal stream energy plant in the north of Scotland. The project is located in the Pentland Firth, specifically the Inner Sound between the Island of Stroma and the Scottish mainland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Huna and Canisbay.
Huna
Hamlet
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Huna is a small remote crofting township, located 1 mile northeast of Canisbay and 1.5 miles west of John o' Groats in Caithness, in Scotland. It is currently part of the Highland Council area.
Canisbay
Hamlet
Photo: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Canisbay is a rural hamlet located about one mile southwest of Huna and two and a half miles southwest of John o' Groats in Caithness, Scottish Highlands, and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
John o’Groats
Photo: Davidcarroll, CC BY-SA 4.0.
John o'Groats is a village in the former county of Caithness on the far north coast of Scotland. With a population of about 300, it makes its living from tourism, as it's the traditional north terminus of the British mainland road network.
Red Head
- Type: Cape
- Category: landform
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.68149° or 58° 40′ 53″ northLongitude
-3.12962° or 3° 7′ 47″ westElevation
20 feet (6 metres)Open location code
9CCRMVJC+H5OpenStreetMap ID
node 610459476OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
2639547
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