Scrabster (Scots: Scraibster, Scottish Gaelic: Sgrabastair/Sgrabstal) is a small settlement on Thurso Bay in Caithness on the north coast of Scotland...
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Thurso Bay (redirect from Scrabster Bay)
Thurso Bay, known also as Scrabster Bay, is a bay of Atlantic water between the points of Clairdon Head and Holborn Head on the north coast of Caithness...
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Scrabster Castle was a castle, near Burnside, about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) north and west of Thurso, and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) south of the village of Scrabster...
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Scotland running from the Falkirk council area in central Scotland to Scrabster Harbour, Thurso in the far north, via Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Perth...
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nearby port of Scrabster provides ferry services to the Orkney Islands; the NorthLink ferry (MV Hamnavoe) operates between Scrabster and Stromness. Originally...
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Head. However, Thurso promontory could have equally described the later Scrabster Castle. A walk around the headland can be accessed through a gate next...
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midway between Thurso town centre to the east and Scrabster Harbour to the west. A bishop's castle (Scrabster Castle) was established near the mouth of Wolf...
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an end. Initially, the contract's two services (Aberdeen-Lerwick and Scrabster-Stromness) were to be de-bundled. Eligible bids for the services were...
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October 2002. However, due to delays in the building of the new pier in Scrabster, Hamnavoe was laid up in Leith. Since 2003 the formal ownership of Hamnavoe...
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it was the northern terminal of the A9 trunk road, which now ends at Scrabster. In 2007, the population of John o' Groats was about 300. The village...
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the west coast of Hoy, in Orkney, Scotland, and can be seen from the Scrabster to Stromness ferry. From certain angles it is said to resemble a human...
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Society. Retrieved 9 March 2019. "Scothighlands - Drive along the A9 to Scrabster, Scotland". www.scothighlands.com. Retrieved 22 November 2019. Clan Gunn...
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a 25-mile (40 km) gap, where it is replaced by the M8. A9 Falkirk to Scrabster. Originally Edinburgh to Inverness, the A9 was extended to John o' Groats...
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Thurso Lifeboat Station is located at Scrabster Harbour, in the NE corner of Scotland, near the town of Thurso, Highland, in the historic county of Caithness...
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Girvan Hunterston Glasgow Islay Lochaline Oban Greenock Ullapool Stornoway Scrabster Stromness Lerwick Kirkwall Scalloway Invergordon Inverness Wick Lossiemouth...
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NorthLink Ferries) Aberdeen to Kirkwall (operated by NorthLink Ferries) Scrabster Harbour, Thurso to Stromness (operated by NorthLink Ferries) Inter-island...
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-stätt as in Eichstätt, Nl. -stad as in Zaanstad ster ON farm Lybster, Scrabster suffix cf. -bost from (bol)staðr stoke OE stoc dependent farmstead, secondary...
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officials, military aides and personal servants. Kitchener sailed from Scrabster to Scapa Flow on 5 June 1916 aboard HMS Oak. He had lunch with Admiral...
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George Bain (1881–1968), born in Scrabster in Caithness, Scotland, was an artist and art teacher who made important and influential contributions to the...
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Commercial No Montrose harbour Montrose Angus Offshore services No Scrabster harbour Scrabster Highland Ferry, fishing Yes Stornoway harbour Stornoway Highland...
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the Old Norse element staðr ('place'), found in names like Lybster and Scrabster in Scotland. Ulster is still known as Cúige Uladh in Irish, meaning the...
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Islands. Until the end of the summer 2008 timetable,Smyril Line also served Scrabster, Scotland and Bergen, Norway. Between 2009 and 2011 Smyril Line serviced...
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with narrow lanes and alleys branching off it. There is a ferry link to Scrabster in Caithness on the Scottish mainland as well as the Isle of Hoy. Finstown...
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link Orkney and Shetland to the rest of Scotland, the main routes being Scrabster harbour, Thurso to Stromness and Aberdeen to Lerwick, both operated by...
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there is a small harbour at the river mouth, the main port is now at Scrabster, just to the west. The river is bridged twice by railways, three times...
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Wayback Machine. Scottish National Heritage. "Scothighlands - Drive from Scrabster to Latheronwheel, Scotland". www.scothighlands.com. Retrieved 22 November...
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and alleys branching off it. There is a ferry link from Stromness to Scrabster on the north coast of mainland Scotland. First recorded as the site of...
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MV Hebridean Isles at Scrabster...
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Inverness in the south and Berriedale, Dunbeath, Halkirk, Thurso and Scrabster in the north. These are on routes X98 and X99 and are operated by Stagecoach...
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Inverness in the south, and Berriedale, Dunbeath, Halkirk, Thurso and Scrabster in the north. These are on route X99 and are operated by Stagecoach Group...
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