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Dunbeath
Sign in to saveDunbeath () 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
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Dunbeath Castle.jpg
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- Dunbeath
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- Caithness
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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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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