Farr
Farr is a parish in the county of Sutherland in the Scottish council area of Highland. The parish also includes a small hamlet named Farr. The village of Bettyhill lies less than 1 mile to the west of the hamlet along the A836 road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in Sutherland, Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Farr, Sutherland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Strathnaver Museum and Loch Salachaidh.
Strathnaver Museum
Museum
Strathnaver Museum is located in Bettyhill, Sutherland, Scotland. It is a fully accredited volunteer-run independent museum which first opened in 1976.
Baile Mhargaite
Archaeological site
Photo: Karl and Ali, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Baile Mhargaite is an Iron Age broch in Strathnaver, Sutherland. It is a scheduled monument. Baile Mhargaite is situated 2 miles southwest of Farr.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crask and Swordly.
Crask
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crask is a small remote hamlet, situated on Farr Bay in the Scottish Highlands, on the shore of northern Sutherland in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Swordly
Hamlet
Swordly is an extremely remote hamlet, located on the Bay of Swordly, on the north coastline of Scotland in Sutherland, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Bettyhill
Village
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bettyhill is a village in the parish of Farr, on the north coast of Scotland. Bettyhill lies on the A836 road 32 miles west of Thurso and 12 miles from Tongue.
Farr
- Category: locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.53869° or 58° 32′ 19″ northLongitude
-4.19893° or 4° 11′ 56″ westElevation
144 feet (44 metres)Open location code
9CCQGRQ2+FCOpenStreetMap ID
node 613133983OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Farr” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Farr (Sutherland)”
- Basque: “Farr”
- Dutch: “Farr”
- Irish: “Far”
- Irish: “Fàrr”
- Japanese: “ファー”
- Scots: “Farr”
- Swedish: “Farr”
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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 “Farr”. Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.