Gorse

Gorse is a forest in Scotland, United Kingdom. Gorse is situated nearby to the town Dornoch, as well as near the hamlet Embo Street.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dornoch Castle and Dornoch Cathedral.

Dornoch Castle

Castle

Photo: Tom Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dornoch Castle is situated opposite Dornoch Cathedral in the town of Dornoch, Scotland. The castle is operated as a family-run hotel with 24 rooms.

Dornoch Cathedral is a Church of Scotland parish church serving the small Sutherland town of Dornoch, in the Scottish Highlands. Despite its name, the church is no longer a cathedral as it is a church of the Church of Scotland but retains the name due…

Dornoch Academy

School

Dornoch Academy is a state secondary school situated in the small town of Dornoch in Sutherland in northern Scotland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dornoch and Embo.

Dornoch

Town

Photo: Dg-505, CC BY 3.0.

Dornoch is a seaside resort town, parish and former royal burgh in the county of Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. It lies on the north shore of the Dornoch Firth, near to where it opens into the Moray Firth to the east.

Embo

Village

Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Embo is a village in the Highland Council Area in Scotland and the former postal county of Sutherland, about two miles north-northeast of Dornoch.

Evelix

Village

Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Evelix or Evelick is a village near Dornoch in south east Sutherland, Scotland. The River Evelix runs through it. Evelix is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

Gorse

Type: Forest
Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.8819° or 57° 52′ 55″ north

Longitude

-4.0166° or 4° 0′ 60″ west

Open location code

9C9QVXJM+Q9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 771994736

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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