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Thrumster, Caithness

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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

Thrumster, Caithness

Weather
  
10°C, Wind SE at 11 km/h, 92% Humidity

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