Thrumster
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| Thrumster | |
| Caithness | |
|---|---|
 The Old Smiddy Inn, Thrumster | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | ND340450 |
| Location: | 58°23’20"N, 3°7’48"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Thrumster |
| Postcode: | KW1 5 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Highland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross |
Thrumster is a remote crofting township in Caithness, alongside the main A99 road between Wick and Inverness. It is indeed the nearest separate village to Wick.
The hillside has a transmission mast which was 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, though the station has been preserved.
The village has a church (Church of Scotland); Thrumster Parish Church, which is now part of the charge of Pulteneytown and Thrumster.
The township of Sarclet is half a mile to the southeast.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Thrumster) |
