Loch Heilen
Loch Heilen is a loch in the civil parish of Dunnet in Caithness, Scotland. St. John's Loch and Loch Heilen are the two largest lochs in the parish. It is about two miles inland from Dunnet Bay to the west, which is on the north coast of Scotland.Photo: Peter Gamble, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Body of water
- Description: lake in Highland, Scotland, UK, outflows north to the Burn of Inkstack, which meets the sea as Burn of Ham
- Also known as: “Loch of Hayland”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Reaster and Dunnet.
Reaster
Hamlet
Reaster is a settlement in the civil parish of Bower, Caithness in the Scottish Highlands. It is near to the site of a former GCHQ monitoring station, which was decommissioned in 1978. Reaster is situated 2 miles south of Loch Heilen.
Dunnet
Village
Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunnet is a village in Caithness, in the Highland area of Scotland. It is within the Parish of Dunnet. Dunnet is situated 3 miles northwest of Loch Heilen.
Bower
Village
Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bower is a village and civil parish in Highland, Scotland It is 10 miles from Thurso and around 11 miles from Wick. Bower is served by Wick, Thurso and Castletown for shopping, taxis and post offices. Bower is situated 3½ miles south of Loch Heilen.
Loch Heilen
- Category: lake
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.59607° or 58° 35′ 46″ northLongitude
-3.28548° or 3° 17′ 8″ westElevation
105 feet (32 metres)Open location code
9CCRHPW7+CROpenStreetMap ID
way 131582902OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Loch Heilen” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Loch Heilen”
- French: “lac Heilen”
- French: “Lac Heilen”
- German: “Loch Heilen”
- Greek: “Λοχ Χείλεν”
- Swedish: “Loch Heilen”
- “Loch Heilen”
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