Royal Air Force Skitten or more simply RAF Skitten is a former Royal Air Force satellite station directly east of the village of Killimster, located 5.1 miles north east of Watten, Caithness, Scotland, and 4.7 miles northwest of Wick, Caithness, Scotland. RAF Skitten is situated 2½ miles south of Mireland.

Bridge of Lyth

Bridge

Photo: John Ferguson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bridge of Lyth is situated 2 miles northwest of Mireland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Keiss and Reiss.

Keiss

Village

Photo: Fergus Mather, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Keiss is a fishing village at the northern end of Sinclair's Bay on the east coast of Caithness in Scotland's Highland Council area. Keiss is situated 2 miles east of Mireland.

Reiss

Village

Photo: Flaxton, CC BY 3.0.

Reiss is a village in the former county of Caithness, now in the Highland council area of northern Scotland. It is well known in the Caithness area for its beach and also the 18-hole Wick golf course. Reiss is situated 3½ miles south of Mireland.

Mireland

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

58.52678° or 58° 31′ 36″ north

Longitude

-3.1726° or 3° 10′ 21″ west

Elevation

62 feet (19 metres)

Open location code

9CCRGRGG+PX

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1458038777

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

13283700

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