Reay
Reay is a village which has grown around Sandside Bay on the north coast of the Highland council area of Scotland. It is within the historic Parish of Reay and the historic county of Caithness.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dorcas Sinclair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include RAF Dounreay and Dounreay Castle.
RAF Dounreay
Historic site
Was an airfield in Dounreay, UK that opened in April 1944. In 1955 the airfield was taken over by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority for developing a fast breeder reactor. One runway was kept operational until the 1990s for transport to/from the site. RAF Dounreay is situated 2 miles northeast of Reay.
Dounreay Castle
Ruins
Dounreay Castle is a ruined 16th-century L-plan castle, about 8 miles west of Thurso, Highland, Scotland, within the grounds of Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment. Dounreay Castle is situated 1½ miles northeast of Reay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forss and Melvich.
Forss
Hamlet
Photo: C Page, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Forss is a small hamlet, situated 3 miles west of Thurso, in Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Brims Castle is located in Forss and was the former stronghold of the Sinclairs of Dunbeath. Forss is situated 5 miles northeast of Reay.
Melvich
Village
Photo: Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Melvich is a village in the county of Sutherland on the north coast of Scotland. It is situated on the A836 road, near the mouth of the River Halladale. Melvich is situated 5 miles west of Reay.
Portskerra
Village
Portskerra is a hamlet that overlooks Melvich Bay in Sutherland, Highland, Scotland. The village of Melvich is less than a mile southeast. Portskerra is situated 6 miles west of Reay.
Reay
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.5586° or 58° 33′ 31″ northLongitude
-3.77597° or 3° 46′ 34″ westElevation
59 feet (18 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB REAOpen location code
9CCRH65F+CJOpenStreetMap ID
node 1464491543OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2639573Wikidata ID
Q1813085
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Reay” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Reay”
- Dutch: “Reay”
- German: “Reay”
- Irish: “Meadhrath”
- Irish: “Ráth, Gallaibh”
- Irish: “Ráth”
- Japanese: “レイ”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Meadhrath”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Meaghrath”
- Swedish: “Reay”
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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 “Reay”. Photo: Dorcas Sinclair, CC BY-SA 2.0.