Coldbackie

Coldbackie is a crofting township in Sutherland and is in the Scottish council area of Highland Scotland.

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 northern 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.

Braetongue

Hamlet

Braetongue is an area in northern Sutherland just north of the town of Tongue. Runrig mentions the "hills about Brae Tongue" in the song The Summer Walkers. Braetongue is situated 2½ miles south 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″ north

Longitude

-4.38124° or 4° 22′ 53″ west

Elevation

220 feet (67 metres)

Open location code

9CCQGJ49+8G

OpenStreetMap ID

node 10292357915

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

13276868

Wikidata ID

Q5142496

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Satellite Map

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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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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Broch and Ben Tongue.

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