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Dunbeath

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Dunbeath () is a village in south-east Caithness, Scotland on the A9 road. It sits astride the Dunbeath Water just before it enters the sea at Dunbeath Bay. Berriedale lies to the south and Latheronwheel to the north-east.

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Place details

Locality
Dunbeath
Region
Alba / Scotland
Country
United Kingdom
Population
0

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Key facts

UK place.country
Scotland
UK place.official_name
Dunbeath
UK place.gaelic_name
Dùn Bheithe
UK place.static_image_name
Kenn and the Salmon.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption
Kenn and the Salmon, a statue in memory of Neil Gunn at Dunbeath harbour
UK place.os_grid_reference
ND160298
UK place.map_type
Caithness
UK place.civil_parish
Latheron
UK place.unitary_scotland
Highland
UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
Caithness
UK place.constituency_westminster
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
Caithness, Sutherland and Ross
UK place.post_town
DUNBEATH
UK place.postcode_district
KW6
UK place.postcode_area
KW
UK place.dial_code
01593

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human settlement
Time zone
UTC±00:00
Image
Dunbeath Castle.jpg
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Commons category
Dunbeath
historic county
Caithness
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Encyclopedic overview

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Dunbeath () is a village in south-east Caithness, Scotland on the A9 road. It sits astride the Dunbeath Water just before it enters the sea at Dunbeath Bay. Berriedale lies to the south and Latheronwheel to the north-east.

Dunbeath has a very rich archaeological landscape, the site of numerous Iron Age brochs and an early medieval monastic site (see Alex Morrison's archaeological survey, "Dunbeath: A Cultural Landscape".)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dunbeath” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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