Coul Links is an area of sand dunes in Sutherland, on the east coast of Scotland. It is located between Golspie and Dornoch, lying just to the north of the small village of Embo.

Royal Dornoch Golf Club

Golf course

Royal Dornoch Golf Club is a golf club in Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland. It is generally referred to as Royal Dornoch. The club has two 18-hole courses: the Championship Course and the Struie Course.

Dornoch Castle

Castle

Photo: Tom Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dornoch Castle is situated opposite Dornoch Cathedral in the town of Dornoch, in Sutherland, Scotland, a little over 40 miles north of Inverness. As of 2021, the castle was operated as a family-run hotel with 24 rooms. Dornoch Castle is situated 2½ miles southwest of Embo.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dornoch and Camore.

Dornoch

Town

Photo: Dg-505, CC BY 3.0.

Dornoch is a town, seaside resort, parish and former royal burgh in the county of Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. It lies on the north shore of the Dornoch Firth, near to where it opens into the Moray Firth to the east. Dornoch is situated 2½ miles southwest of Embo.

Camore

Hamlet

Camore is a small hamlet, located 0.5 mile directly southeast of Evelix, and 1.5 miles west of Dornoch, in south east Sutherland, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Camore is situated 3 miles southwest of Embo.

Evelix

Village

Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Evelix or Evelick is a village near Dornoch in south east Sutherland, Scotland. The River Evelix runs through it. Evelix is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Evelix is situated 3 miles southwest of Embo.

Embo

Categories: human settlement and locality
Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.90904° or 57° 54′ 33″ north

Longitude

-3.99973° or 3° 59′ 59″ west

Population

300

Elevation

49 feet (15 metres)

Open location code

9C9RW252+J4

OpenStreetMap ID

node 288167804

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

2650012

Wikidata ID

Q3997457

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Embo” goes by many names.

Basque: “Embo”
Bulgarian: “Ембо”
Cebuano: “Embo”
Dutch: “Embo”
German: “Embo”
Irish: “Eurabol”
Japanese: “エンボー”
Scottish Gaelic: “Embo”
Scottish Gaelic: “Eurabol”
Swedish: “Embo”

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Localities in the Area

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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 “Embo”. Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.