Loch Hempriggs

Loch Hempriggs is a lake in Highland Council, Scotland. Loch Hempriggs is situated nearby to the village Thrumster, as well as near the hamlet Tannach.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Thrumster Little,broch,Thrumster and Wick Town and County Hospital.

Thrumster Little,broch,Thrumster

Archaeological site

Photo: Ewen Rennie, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Thrumster Little,broch,Thrumster is an archaeological site.

Wick Town and County Hospital

Hospital

Wick Town and County Hospital is a health facility in Seaforth Avenue, Wick, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Highland.

Harmsworth Park

Sports venue

Photo: Colin Kinnear, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Harmsworth Park is a football ground in Wick in the Scottish Highlands of Scotland, which is the home ground of Highland Football League side Wick Academy F.C.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Thrumster and Sarclet.

Thrumster is a crofting township on the main A99 road between Wick and Inverness. It is the nearest village to Wick. The transmission mast used to broadcast BBC television and radio signals to Caithness was located here until 1960.

Sarclet

Village

Photo: Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sarclet is a remote clifftop crofting township, situated on the east coast of Caithness, lying slightly north of Loch Sarclet in the Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

Wick

Photo: Jameslwoodward, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Wick is a town in Caithness in the far northeast of Scotland, with a population of 6870 in 2020. The name comes from Norse vik, meaning a bay. The town first grew up north of the river: in the 19th century the fishing port of Pulteney was established to the…

Loch Hempriggs

Type: Lake
Category: body of water
Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

58.4069° or 58° 24′ 25″ north

Longitude

-3.12686° or 3° 7′ 37″ west

Elevation

171 feet (52 metres)

Open location code

9CCRCV4F+Q7

OpenStreetMap ID

way 104130563

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=lake

GeoNames ID

2647128

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Satellite Map

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Hempriggs Broch and Cairnquoy, Broch.

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