--- title: "Dunbeath – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Dunbeath, United Kingdom: Dunbeath is a village in south-east Caithness, Scotland on the A9 road. Nearby: Dunbeath Castle. Every way there from the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dunbeath" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dunbeath.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/War_Memorial_Eagles_Rock%2C_Caithness_1036.jpg/1920px-War_Memorial_Eagles_Rock%2C_Caithness_1036.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Human settlement in Scotland · United Kingdom # Dunbeath Dunbeath is a village in south-east Caithness, Scotland on the A9 road. ![Dunbeath](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/War_Memorial_Eagles_Rock%2C_Caithness_1036.jpg/1920px-War_Memorial_Eagles_Rock%2C_Caithness_1036.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Dunbeath · Portal01 The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbeath), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Dunbeath 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. 1.6 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 Dunbeath **Airports:** Aberdeen (ABZ), 138 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 256 km · Glasgow (GLA), 271 km\ - Aberdeen → Dunbeath 146 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · £27–36 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/aberdeen-to-dunbeath) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Aberdeen&to=Dunbeath) - Ingliston, Edinburgh → Dunbeath 257 km · quickest by road, 5h 11m · £34–45 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ingliston-edinburgh-to-dunbeath) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ingliston%2C+Edinburgh&to=Dunbeath) - Glasgow → Dunbeath 270 km · quickest by road, 5h 29m · £36–48 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/glasgow-to-dunbeath) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Glasgow&to=Dunbeath) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Dunbeath) 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 Dunbeath 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 Dunbeath. 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 86 km 2. [Isle of Skye](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/skye) GB 12 ways of moving, 18 sources 196 km 3. [The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and Canna](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/small-isles) GB 9 ways of moving, 20 sources 226 km 4. [South Uist and the southern Outer Hebrides](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/south-uist) GB 11 ways of moving, 25 sources 257 km 5. [Isle of Coll](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coll) GB 7 ways of moving, 16 sources 261 km If you know how people move in Dunbeath – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cdunbeath&title=Dunbeath&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fdunbeath), and the note gets an entry. 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