Fresgoe
Fresgoe is the main harbour for the village of Reay, overlooking Sandside Bay in Caithness in the Scottish Highlands. It was built in the early 1830s, by a Major William Innes at a cost of £3000, primarily to encourage fishing and was also used on the north coast trading route.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dounreay Castle and RAF Dounreay.
Dounreay Castle
Ruins
Dounreay Castle is a ruined 16th-century L-plan castle, about 8 miles west of Thurso, Highland, Scotland, within the grounds of Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment. Dounreay Castle is situated 2 miles east of Fresgoe.
RAF Dounreay
Historic site
Was an airfield in Dounreay, UK that opened in April 1944. In 1955 the airfield was taken over by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority for developing a fast breeder reactor. One runway was kept operational until the 1990s for transport to/from the site. RAF Dounreay is situated 2½ miles east of Fresgoe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Reay and Melvich.
Reay
Village
Photo: Dorcas Sinclair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Reay is a village which has grown around Sandside Bay on the north coast of the Highland council area of Scotland. It is within the historic Parish of Reay and the historic county of Caithness.
Melvich
Village
Photo: Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Melvich is a village in the county of Sutherland on the north coast of Scotland. It is situated on the A836 road, near the mouth of the River Halladale. Melvich is situated 4½ miles west of Fresgoe.
Portskerra
Village
Portskerra is a hamlet that overlooks Melvich Bay in Sutherland, Highland, Scotland. The village of Melvich is less than a mile southeast. Portskerra is situated 5 miles west of Fresgoe.
Fresgoe
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.56891° or 58° 34′ 8″ northLongitude
-3.79599° or 3° 47′ 46″ westElevation
56 feet (17 metres)Open location code
9CCRH693+HJOpenStreetMap ID
node 1464494592OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Fresgoe” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Fresgoe”
- Dutch: “Fresgoe”
- Irish: “Fresgoe”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fresgoe”
Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Dun site and Reay Play Park.
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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 “Fresgoe”. Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.