--- title: "Balnabruich – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Balnabruich, United Kingdom: Balnabruich is a small hamlet on the east coast of Scotland, close to Dunbeath, Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/balnabruich" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/balnabruich.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Dolphins_in_Cromarty_Firth_%281%29.JPG/1920px-Dolphins_in_Cromarty_Firth_%281%29.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Human settlement in Scotland · United Kingdom # Balnabruich Balnabruich is a small hamlet on the east coast of Scotland, close to Dunbeath, Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. ![Balnabruich](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Dolphins_in_Cromarty_Firth_%281%29.JPG/1920px-Dolphins_in_Cromarty_Firth_%281%29.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Balnabruich · Nilfanion The place Balnabruich is a small hamlet on the east coast of Scotland, close to Dunbeath, Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balnabruich), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Balnabruich One place 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. Dunbeath Castle Dunbeath Castle is located on the east coast of Caithness, 2 kilometres south of Dunbeath, in northern Scotland. Although a castle has stood here since the 15th century, the present building is of mainly 17th-century origin, with 19th-century extensions. 1 km · castle in Highland, Scotland, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbeath_Castle) 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. Go there ## Getting to Balnabruich **Airports:** Aberdeen (ABZ), 137 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 255 km · Glasgow (GLA), 270 km\ - Aberdeen → Balnabruich 146 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · £27–36 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/aberdeen-to-balnabruich) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Aberdeen&to=Balnabruich) - Ingliston, Edinburgh → Balnabruich 256 km · quickest by road, 5h 11m · £34–45 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ingliston-edinburgh-to-balnabruich) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ingliston%2C+Edinburgh&to=Balnabruich) - Glasgow → Balnabruich 269 km · quickest by road, 5h 29m · £36–48 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/glasgow-to-balnabruich) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Glasgow&to=Balnabruich) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Balnabruich) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Balnabruich 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 Balnabruich. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Kirkwall and the Orkney Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kirkwall) GB 9 ways of moving, 35 sources 87 km 2. [Isle of Skye](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/skye) GB 12 ways of moving, 18 sources 195 km 3. [The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and Canna](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/small-isles) GB 9 ways of moving, 20 sources 225 km 4. [South Uist and the southern Outer Hebrides](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/south-uist) GB 11 ways of moving, 25 sources 256 km 5. [Isle of Coll](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coll) GB 7 ways of moving, 16 sources 260 km If you know how people move in Balnabruich – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cbalnabruich&title=Balnabruich&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fbalnabruich), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Balnabruich - [Dunbeath](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dunbeath) human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK 1.6 km - [Ramscraig](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ramscraig) human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK 2.5 km [The place page for Balnabruich](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/balnabruich) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/balnabruich, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt