Crosskirk
Crosskirk is a small remote hamlet, overlooking Crosskirk Bay, in Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. The hamlet of Crosskirk is situated less than 1 mile north east of Forss and 3 miles west of Thurso.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crosskirk Broch and Brims Castle.
Crosskirk Broch
Archaeological site
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Crosskirk Broch was a fortification near the present day hamlet of Crosskirk near Thurso, Caithness, Scotland. After thorough archaeological exploration it was destroyed in 1972 since the site had become unsafe due to sea erosion.
Brims Castle
Ruins
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brims Castle is a ruined 16th century L-plan tower house on Brims Ness, Highland region, Scotland, to the south of the Pentland Firth, about 5 miles north west of Thurso.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forss and Scrabster.
Forss
Hamlet
Photo: C Page, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Forss is a small hamlet, situated 3 miles west of Thurso, in Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Brims Castle is located in Forss and was the former stronghold of the Sinclairs of Dunbeath.
Scrabster
Village
Photo: Gestumblindi, CC0.
Scrabster is a small settlement on Thurso Bay in Caithness on the north coast of Scotland. It is some 1+1⁄2 miles from Thurso, 22+1⁄2 miles from Wick, 112 miles from Inverness and 271.7 miles from Edinburgh. Scrabster is situated 4 miles east of Crosskirk.
Burnside
Quarter
Burnside is a predominantly residential area of Thurso, Caithness, in the Highland council area of Scotland. Much of the district was built up during the latter half of the 20th century, and this development began in the region of the bridge which carries the A9 road over Wolf Burn, at grid reference ND106691. Burnside is situated 4½ miles east of Crosskirk.
Crosskirk
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Caithness, Highland, Scotland, UK, by the mouth of the Forss Water
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.60663° or 58° 36′ 24″ northLongitude
-3.67147° or 3° 40′ 17″ westElevation
102 feet (31 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CKKOpen location code
9CCRJ84H+MCOpenStreetMap ID
node 633018418OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2651865Wikidata ID
Q5188703
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Dutch—“Crosskirk” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Crosskirk”
- Dutch: “Crosskirk”
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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 “Crosskirk”. Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 4.0.