Kilvaxter
Kilvaxter is a crofting township located on the Trotternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye in the Highlands of Scotland. It is in the council area of Highland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Skye Museum of Island Life and Tigh Talamhain Souterrain.
Skye Museum of Island Life
Museum
Photo: HelgeRieder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Skye Museum of Island Life is a museum in Kilmuir, Skye, 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.
Tigh Talamhain Souterrain
Archaeological site
Photo: Dave Fergusson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tigh Talamhain Souterrain is an archaeological site, which is situated 2 miles northeast of Kilvaxter.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bornesketaig and Heribusta.
Bornesketaig
Hamlet
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bornesketaig, Scottish Gaelic Borgh na Sgiotaig, is a dispersed crofting settlement in Trotternish on the Isle of Skye.
Heribusta
Hamlet
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Herbusta, is a small crofting township on the Trotternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye in the Highlands of Scotland. It is part of the civil parish of Kilmuir.
Hungladder
Hamlet
Photo: Dave Fergusson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hungladder is a small village on north west coast of the Trotternish peninsula in Kilmuir, Portree, Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. The village of Uig, lies 5 miles to the south.
Kilvaxter
- Type: Hamlet
- 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
57.64021° or 57° 38′ 25″ northLongitude
-6.37625° or 6° 22′ 35″ westElevation
33 feet (10 metres)Open location code
9C9MJJRF+3GOpenStreetMap ID
node 546960953OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Irish—“Kilvaxter” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Kilvaxter”
- Dutch: “Kilvaxter”
- Esperanto: “Kilvaxter”
- German: “Kilvaxter”
- Irish: “Cille Bhacastair”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Balgown and Kilmuir.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kilvaxter iron-age farmstead and souterrain and Kilmuir and Stenscholl Church of Scotland.
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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.