Haster
Haster is a small remote rural hamlet and district in Wick, in the Highland area of Scotland.
Haster is a small remote rural hamlet and district in Wick, in the Highland area of Scotland. It is located just west of the Bridge of Haster, which carries the A882 road linking the burghs of Wick and Thurso over the Achairn Burn to the main A9 road. It is about 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) west of Wick and about 5+1⁄2 miles (9 km) east of Watten. An older village centre is about half a mile to the south.
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Worth seeing in and around Haster
3 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.
- 01Wick 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.
3.9 km · church building in Highland, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Joachim's Roman Catholic Church, Malcolm Street, Wick
St Joachim's Church is a Category B listed Roman Catholic church in Wick, Scotland.
3.9 km · church in Highland, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Harmsworth 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.
3.9 km · stadium in Highland, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Haster
- Airports
- Aberdeen (ABZ), 149 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 278 km · Glasgow (GLA), 296 km
- Stations
- Wick railway station, 3.5 km
- Aberdeen → Haster3756 km · quickest by road, 69h 24m · £485–640
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Haster3799 km · quickest by road, 66h 36m · £460–620
- Glasgow → Haster3852 km · quickest by road, 66h 22m · £465–620
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Haster
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 Haster. 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.
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