Castletown
Castletown is a village on the north coast of the Highland council area of Scotland, situated near Dunnet Bay. It is within the civil parish of Olrig, where it is the main settlement, and within the historic county of Caithness.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 810 residents
- Description: village in Caithness, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Castletown, Highland”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Murkle and Dunnet.
Murkle
Village
Photo: david glass, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Murkle is a small scattered hamlet, made up of East Murkle and West Murkle located one mile east of Thurso, in Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Murkle is situated 1½ miles west of Castletown.
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 2½ miles northeast of Castletown.
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 4 miles southeast of Castletown.
Castletown
- Category: locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.59247° or 58° 35′ 33″ northLongitude
-3.38722° or 3° 23′ 14″ westPopulation
810Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CTNOpen location code
9CCRHJR7+X4OpenStreetMap ID
node 4006327668OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Castletown” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Castletown”
- Cebuano: “Castletown”
- Dutch: “Castletown”
- Irish: “Baile a‘ Chaisteil”
- Irish: “Baile a’ Chaisteil”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Castletown”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Castletown i Caithness”
- Norwegian: “Castletown”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile a’ Chaisteil, Gallaibh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile a‘ Chaisteil”
- Spanish: “Castletown”
- Swedish: “Castletown, Skottland”
- Swedish: “Castletown”
- “Castletown”
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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 “Castletown”. Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.