Thurso
Thurso is a town in Caithness on the far north coast of Scotland, with a population of 7390 in 2020. The name probably refers to the deity Thor, and this area was Norse until the 13th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 7,390 residents
- Description: town in Caithness, Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Tarvodubron”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thurso Castle and Dunbar Hospital.
Thurso Castle
Castle
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a ruined 19th-century castle, located in Thurso, Caithness, in the Scottish Highlands. Situated in Thurso East,east of the River Thurso, the site can be seen from across the river.
Dunbar Hospital
Hospital
Dunbar Hospital is a health facility in Ormlie Road, Thurso, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Highland.
Thurso railway station
Railway stop
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thurso railway station is a railway station located in Thurso, in the Highland council area in the far north of Scotland. It serves the town and its surrounding areas, along with ferry services linking the mainland with Stromness on the Orkney Islands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Scrabster and Burnside.
Scrabster
Village
Photo: Gestumblindi, CC0.
Scrabster is a small settlement on Thurso Bay in Caithness on the north coast of Scotland. It is some 1+1⁄2 miles from Thurso, 22+1⁄2 miles from Wick, 112 miles from Inverness and 271.7 miles from Edinburgh.
Burnside
Quarter
Burnside is a predominantly residential area of Thurso, Caithness, in the Highland council area of Scotland. Much of the district was built up during the latter half of the 20th century, and this development began in the region of the bridge which carries the A9 road over Wolf Burn, at grid reference ND106691.
Thurso East
Quarter
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thurso East is a coastline section of the Atlantic 0.5 miles east of Thurso, Caithness, northern Scotland. It is situated at the mouth of the River Thurso, overlooked by the remains of Thurso Castle.
Thurso
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.5947° or 58° 35′ 41″ northLongitude
-3.5206° or 3° 31′ 14″ westPopulation
7,390Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB THROpen location code
9CCRHFVH+VQOpenStreetMap ID
node 25254574OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Thurso” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تورسو”
- Asturian: “Thurso”
- Basque: “Thurso”
- Belarusian: “Тэрса”
- Bengali: “তুরসো”
- Catalan: “Thurso”
- Cebuano: “Thurso”
- Chinese: “瑟索”
- Chinese: “苏尔索”
- Chinese: “蘇爾索”
- Dutch: “Thurso”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تورسو”
- Esperanto: “Thurso”
- French: “Thurso”
- German: “Thurso”
- Gujarati: “થુરસો”
- Hebrew: “תורסו”
- Icelandic: “Thurso”
- Irish: “Inbhir Theórsa”
- Irish: “Inbhir Theòrsa”
- Italian: “Thurso”
- Japanese: “サーソー”
- Kannada: “ತುರ್ಸೊ”
- Korean: “서소”
- Lithuanian: “Tursas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thurso”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thurso”
- Norwegian: “Thurso”
- Persian: “تورسو”
- Polish: “Thurso”
- Portuguese: “Thurso”
- Russian: “Терсо”
- Scots: “Thirsa”
- Scots: “Thursa”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Inbhir Theòrsa”
- Sindhi: “ٿرسو”
- Slovenian: “Thurso”
- South Azerbaijani: “تورسو”
- Spanish: “Thurso”
- Swedish: “Thurso”
- Tamil: “துர்சோ”
- Telugu: “తుర్సో”
- Ukrainian: “Терсо”
- Urdu: “تھورسو”
- Vietnamese: “Thurso”
- Welsh: “Thurso”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Thurso”. Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 4.0.