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Kilvaxter

Kilvaxter is a crofting township located on the Trotternish peninsula of the in the of Scotland. It is in the council area of Highland.
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  • Type: Hamlet
  • Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Cille Bhacastair”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kilvaxter Iron-Age Farmstead & Souterrain and Skye Museum of Island Life.

Archaeological site
Photo: Nessy-Pic, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an archaeological site.

Museum
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The is a museum in , Scotland, which is dedicated to preserving a township of thatched cottages as they would have been on Skye at the end of the 18th century.

Archaeological site
Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an archaeological site, which is situated 1½ miles northwest of Kilvaxter.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kilmuir and Bornesketaig.

Village
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is a village on the west coast of the peninsula in the north of the island of Skye, and a civil parish covering the north of the peninsula.

Hamlet
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, Scottish Gaelic Borgh na Sgiotaig, is a dispersed crofting settlement in on the .

Hamlet
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Herbusta, is a small crofting township on the peninsula of the in the of Scotland. It is part of the civil parish of .

Kilvaxter

Latitude
57.64021° or 57° 38′ 25″ north
Longitude
-6.37625° or 6° 22′ 35″ west
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
Open location code
9C9MJJRF+3G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 546960953
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
2645545
Wiki­data ID
Q1651062
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Kilvaxter” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Kilvaxter”
  • Dutch: “Kilvaxter”
  • Esperanto: “Kilvaxter”
  • German: “Kilvaxter”
  • Irish: “Cille Bhacastair”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cille a‘ Bhacstair”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cille Bhacastair”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cille Bhacstair”
  • “Cille Bhacastair”
  • “Kilvaxter”
  • “Kilvaxter - Cille Bhacastair”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Kilmuir and Stenscholl Church of Scotland and Free Church of Scotland Kilmuir.

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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 “Kilvaxter”. Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.