Watten is a small village in Caithness, in the Highland area of Scotland, on the main road between the burgh of Wick and the town of Thurso, about twelve kilometres west of Wick and close to Wick River and to Loch Watten. Watten is situated 2 miles southeast of Lynegar.

Bower

Village

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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 north of Lynegar.

Reaster

Hamlet

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 5 miles north of Lynegar.

Lynegar

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

58.49557° or 58° 29′ 44″ north

Longitude

-3.32605° or 3° 19′ 34″ west

Open location code

9CCRFMWF+6H

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1458199423

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

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