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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,
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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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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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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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...
- Head. However,
Thurso promontory could have
equally described the
later Scrabster Castle. A walk
around the
headland can be
accessed through a gate next...
- it was the
northern terminal of the A9
trunk road,
which now ends at
Scrabster. The
longest journey possible in the UK is
however Lands End to Duncansby...
- 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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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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