Easter Head
Easter Head is a cape in Highland Council, Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dunnet Head Lighthouse and Dunnet Church.
Dunnet Head Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunnet Head Lighthouse is an active 19th century lighthouse that stands on the 300-foot cliff top of Easter Head on Dunnet Head. The lighthouse is 66 feet tall and was built in 1831 by Robert Stevenson, grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Dunnet Church
Church
Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunnet Parish Church is a Church of Scotland church in Dunnet, Caithness, northern Scotland. References to St Mary's Parish Church are known from as far back as the 13th century, and there are pre-16th century gravestones in the churchyard.
St. John’s Loch
Photo: Ken Walton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St. John's Loch is a loch in the civil parish of Dunnet, in Caithness, Highland, Scotland. Loch Heilen and St. John's Loch are the two largest lochs in the parish.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Easter Head and Dunnet.
Easter Head
Locality
Photo: Asterion, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Dunnet Head is a peninsula on the northern coast of Caithness, Scotland, 10.5 miles west of John o' Groats. It terminates at Easter Head, the northernmost point on the island of Great Britain.
Dunnet
Village
Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunnet is a village in Caithness, in the Highland area of Scotland. It is within the Parish of Dunnet.
Castletown
Village
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castletown is a village on the north coast of the Highland council area of Scotland, situated near Dunnet Bay. It is within the civil parish of Olrig, where it is the main settlement, and within the historic county of Caithness.
Easter Head
- Type: Cape
- Category: landform
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.6721° or 58° 40′ 20″ northLongitude
-3.377° or 3° 22′ 37″ westOpen location code
9CCRMJCF+R5OpenStreetMap ID
node 17872719OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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