OS grid reference ND340450 Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district KW1 5 Local time Friday 10:50 AM Lieutenancy areas Highland, Caithness | Country Scotland Post town Thrumster Police Scottish Council area Highland | |
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Thrumster is a remote crofting township on the main A99 road between Wick and Inverness. It is the nearest village to Wick. The transmission mast used to broadcast BBC television and radio signals to Caithness until 1960.
Map of Thrumster, Wick, UK
The village had a railway station until trains stopped running on the Wick and Lybster Railway in 1944. The station has been preserved. 0.3 mile south is Thrumster Parish Church, part of the Church of Scotland charge of Pulteneytown and Thrumster.
The township of Sarclet is situated 0.5 miles to the southeast.
References
Thrumster, Caithness Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA