Murkle
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castletown and Thurso East.
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 1½ miles east of Murkle.
Thurso East
Quarter
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thurso East is a coastline section of the Atlantic 0.5 miles east of Thurso, Caithness, northern Scotland. It is situated at the mouth of the River Thurso, overlooked by the remains of Thurso Castle. Thurso East is situated 2½ miles west of Murkle.
Thurso
Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thurso is a town in Caithness on the far north coast of Scotland, with a population of 7390 in 2020. The name probably refers to the deity Thor, and this area was Norse until the 13th century.
Murkle
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.5933° or 58° 35′ 36″ northLongitude
-3.43369° or 3° 26′ 1″ westElevation
125 feet (38 metres)Open location code
9CCRHHV8+8GOpenStreetMap ID
node 663877874OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Dutch—“Murkle” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Murkle”
- Dutch: “Murkle”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Murkle”. Photo: david glass, CC BY-SA 2.0.