Coldbackie
Coldbackie is a crofting township in Sutherland and is in the Scottish council area of Highland Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dorcas Sinclair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cnoc an Fhreiceadain and St Andrew’s Church, Tongue.
Cnoc an Fhreiceadain
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cnoc an Fhreiceadain is a coastal mountain peak in northern Scotland. It is 307 metres high with commanding views along the north coast of Scotland to Orkney in the east to Durness and Arkle in the West.
St Andrew’s Church, Tongue
Church
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Andrew’s Church, Tongue is situated 2½ miles southwest of Coldbackie.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Skullomie and Tongue.
Skullomie
Hamlet
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Scullomie is a small fishing and crofting township at the head of Tongue Bay in Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands. It is located around 3 miles north of the village of Tongue on the northern coast of Scotland and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Tongue
Village
Photo: Florian Fuchs, CC BY 3.0.
Tongue is a coastal village in northwest Highland, Scotland, in the western part of the former county of Sutherland. It lies on the east shore above the base of the Kyle of Tongue and north of the mountains Ben Hope and Ben Loyal on the A836. Tongue is situated 2 miles southwest of Coldbackie.
Skerray
Village
Photo: Tim Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Skerray is a remote small crofting hamlet and fishing port on the north coast of Sutherland, Scotland. It is located 7+3⁄4 miles by road northeast of Tongue and 40+1⁄4 miles by road west of Thurso. Skerray is situated 3½ miles northeast of Coldbackie.
Coldbackie
- Type: Village
- Description: hamlet in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Categories: hamlet and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.50576° or 58° 30′ 21″ northLongitude
-4.38124° or 4° 22′ 53″ westElevation
220 feet (67 metres)Open location code
9CCQGJ49+8GOpenStreetMap ID
node 10292357915OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Irish—“Coldbackie” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Coldbackie”
- Dutch: “Coldbackie”
- Irish: “Callbacaidh”
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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 “Coldbackie”. Photo: Dorcas Sinclair, CC BY-SA 2.0.