Heaste
Heasta, Heast, or the anglicised form Heaste, pron. /heɪst/, is a small settlement on the island of Skye, Scotland. It is located on the west coast of the island five miles south of Broadford extending down to the north shore of Loch Eiseort, facing out to the Atlantic to the south west and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Heast” and “Heasta”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boreraig and Drumfearn.
Boreraig
Locality
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boreraig is a deserted township in Strath Swordale on the north shore of Loch Eishort in the parish of Strath, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Boreraig is situated 2 miles southwest of Heaste.
Drumfearn
Hamlet
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Drumfearn is a small crofting township, lying at the head of the Sleat peninsula, at the head of Loch Eishort, on the isle of Skye in the Highlands of Scotland and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Drumfearn is situated 2 miles southeast of Heaste.
Ord
Hamlet
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ord is a hamlet, which is situated 3 miles southwest of Heaste.
Heaste
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.18756° or 57° 11′ 15″ northLongitude
-5.89488° or 5° 53′ 42″ westElevation
207 feet (63 metres)Open location code
9C9P54Q4+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 478776586OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Heaste” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Heaste”
- Dutch: “Heaste”
- Irish: “Heast”
- Irish: “Heasta”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Heast”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Heasta”
- “Heasta”
- “Heaste”
- “Heaste - Heasta”
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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 “Heaste”. Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.