Thrumster, Caithness

Thrumster
Thrumster
Thrumster shown within the Caithness area
OS grid reference ND340450
Council area
Lieutenancy area
Country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Thrumster
Postcode district KW1 5
Police Scottish
Fire Scottish
Ambulance Scottish
EU Parliament Scotland
Thrumster railway station

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.

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.


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