Stoer Head
Stoer Head is a headland north of Lochinver and the township of Stoer in Sutherland, marking the northern entrance to the Minch. A lighthouse, the Stour Head Lighthouse, stands on the point.
Geography
The peninsula is about four miles long and two miles wide. It has a number of scattered, small settlements including Culkein, Balchladich and Achnacarnin. The lighthouse is at the end of a track three miles long which branches off the B869 Lochinver to Unapool road.[1] Further North up the coast are the Old Man of Stoer and the Point of Stoer, which can easily be reached from the lighthouse on foot.[1][2]
Around 10,000 visitors visit the lighthouse each year (necessitating the construction of a public toilet in 2013).[3] The two keepers' cottages are now holiday homes.[4]
Location
- Streetmap: NC019330
- Location map: 58°14’29"N, 5°22’31"W
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Stoer Head Lighthouse) |
- Stoer Peninsula on Undiscovered Scotland
- Stoer Head Lighthouse - Northern Lighthouse Board
- Stoer Head Lighthouse Accommodation
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Old Man of Stoer and the Point of Stoer - Walking Britain
- ↑ Map of Stoer: British Coast Maps
- ↑ 'New toilet at remote Sutherland Stoer Head Lighthouse' - BBC News 16 August 2013
- ↑ CANMORE (RCAHMS) record of Stoer Head Lighthouse
