Noss Head
Noss Head is a cape in Highland Council, Scotland. Noss Head is situated nearby to the village Staxigoe, as well as near Papigoe.Places of Interest
Highlights include Noss Head Lighthouse and Castle Sinclair Girnigoe.
Noss Head Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Doug Lee, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Noss Head Lighthouse is an active 19th-century lighthouse near Wick in Caithness in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is located at the end of Noss Head, a peninsula on the north-west coast of Caithness that overlooks Sinclairs Bay, three miles north-east of Wick.
Castle Sinclair Girnigoe
Castle
Photo: Sir Gawain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castle Sinclair Girnigoe is located about 3 miles north of Wick on the east coast of Caithness, Scotland. It is considered to be one of the earliest seats of Clan Sinclair.
Wick John O‘ Groats Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wick John O' Groats Airport is located one nautical mile north of the town of Wick, at the north-eastern extremity of the mainland of Scotland. It is owned and maintained by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Staxigoe and Papigoe.
Staxigoe
Village
Staxigoe is a former fishing village, located 2 miles east of Wick on the north-eastern coast of the former county of Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
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.
Ackergill
Hamlet
Ackergill is a settlement in the Wick, Caithness, in the Highland Council area of Scotland.
Noss Head
- Type: Cape
- Category: landform
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.47942° or 58° 28′ 46″ northLongitude
-3.05226° or 3° 3′ 8″ westOpen location code
9CCRFWHX+Q3OpenStreetMap ID
node 9958844473OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
2641176
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