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Ackergill

Ackergill is a settlement in the Wick, Caithness, in the Highland Council area of Scotland.

Ackergill
Ackergill · Sian Abrahams
The place

Ackergill is a settlement in the Wick, Caithness, in the Highland Council area of Scotland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ackergill

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Ackergill Tower

    Ackergill Tower is located on the coast of Sinclair's Bay, about 2.5 miles north of Wick, Caithness, in northern Scotland. It was built in the early 16th century, and is a Category A listed building.

    1.6 km · castle in Highland, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Castle Sinclair Girnigoe

    Castle Sinclair Girnigoe is located about 3 miles north of Wick on the east coast of Caithness, Scotland. It is considered to be one of the earliest seats of Clan Sinclair.

    3.2 km · castle in Highland, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wick Central Church, Dempster Street, Wick

    Pulteneytown Central Church was a Christian church in the Pulteneytown area of Wick in Caithness in the far north of Scotland. It ran church services from 1806 to 1990.

    2.8 km · church building in Highland, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Joachim's Roman Catholic Church, Malcolm Street, Wick

    St Joachim's Church is a Category B listed Roman Catholic church in Wick, Scotland.

    2.8 km · church in Highland, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Harmsworth Park

    Harmsworth Park is a football ground in Wick in the Scottish Highlands of Scotland, which is the home ground of Highland Football League side Wick Academy F.C. It is located on South Road in the south of the town and has a capacity of 2,412 with 102 seated. The ground is the home of the most northerly senior football club in the United Kingdom.

    3.4 km · stadium in Highland, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Ackergill

Airports
Aberdeen (ABZ), 150 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 280 km · Glasgow (GLA), 299 km
Stations
Wick Airport, 1.2 km · Wick railway station, 2.4 km
  • Aberdeen → Ackergill
    158 km · quickest by road, 5h 56m · £30–40
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Ackergill
    281 km · quickest by road, 6h 48m · £37–50
  • Glasgow → Ackergill
    297 km · quickest by road, 7h 9m · £39–55
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ackergill

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ackergill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBy boat: see Thurso for the Scrabster-Stromness ferry, and John o'Groats for the Gills Land - St Margaret's Hope and John o'Groats - Burwick ferries.
  • Get aroundIn summer a couple of extra buses continue to Gills Land for the ferry.

From Wikivoyage: Wick (Scotland), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Kirkwall and the Orkney IslandsGB

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    59 km
  2. 02
    Isle of SkyeGB

    12 ways of moving, 18 sources

    225 km
  3. 03
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    255 km
  4. 04
    Yell, Unst and the North IslesGB

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    262 km
  5. 05
    South Uist and the southern Outer HebridesGB

    11 ways of moving, 20 sources

    283 km

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Around it

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