Reaster is a settlement in the civil parish of Bower, Caithness in the Scottish Highlands. It is near to the site of a former GCHQ monitoring station, which was decommissioned in 1978. Reaster is situated 1½ miles west of Alterwall.

Bower

Village

Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bower is a village and civil parish in Highland, Scotland It is 10 miles from Thurso and around 11 miles from Wick. Bower is served by Wick, Thurso and Castletown for shopping, taxis and post offices. Bower is situated 3½ miles southwest of Alterwall.

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 4½ miles southeast of Alterwall.

Alterwall

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

58.56617° or 58° 33′ 58″ north

Longitude

-3.22573° or 3° 13′ 33″ west

Elevation

112 feet (34 metres)

Open location code

9CCRHQ8F+FP

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1458041920

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

13283710

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