Bower
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 633 residents
- Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Bower, Highland” and “Bowertower”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Reaster and Castletown.
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 northeast of Bower.
Castletown
Village
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. Castletown is situated 4 miles northwest of Bower.
Watten
Village
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Watten is a small village in Caithness, in the Highland area of Scotland, on the main road between the burgh of Wick and the town of Thurso, about twelve kilometres west of Wick and close to Wick River and to Loch Watten. Watten is situated 5 miles south of Bower.
Bower
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.54688° or 58° 32′ 49″ northLongitude
-3.31252° or 3° 18′ 45″ westPopulation
633Elevation
200 feet (61 metres)Open location code
9CCRGMWP+QXOpenStreetMap ID
node 9138602437OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2655063Wikidata ID
Q2181270
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Bower” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bower”
- Dutch: “Bower”
- Irish: “Bàgair”
- Irish: “Bàghar”
- Japanese: “バウアー”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bàgair”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bàgar”
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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 “Bower”. Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.