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

Ackergill is a settlement in the Wick, Caithness, in the Highland Council area of Scotland.
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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.
- 01Ackergill 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 - 02Castle 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 - 03Wick 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 - 04St 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 - 05Harmsworth 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
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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 → Ackergill158 km · quickest by road, 5h 56m · £30–40
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Ackergill281 km · quickest by road, 6h 48m · £37–50
- Glasgow → Ackergill297 km · quickest by road, 7h 9m · £39–55
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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.
- 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.
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