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Ramscraig

Ramscraig is a small scattered crofting hamlet, located 2 miles southwest from Dunbeath, in eastern Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

The place

Ramscraig is a small scattered crofting hamlet, located 2 miles southwest from Dunbeath, in eastern Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ramscraig

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. 01
    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.

    2 km · castle 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 Ramscraig

Airports
Aberdeen (ABZ), 136 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 253 km · Glasgow (GLA), 268 km
  • Aberdeen → Ramscraig
    145 km · quickest by road, 4h 26m · £27–36
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Ramscraig
    254 km · quickest by road, 5h 10m · £34–45
  • Glasgow → Ramscraig
    267 km · quickest by road, 5h 28m · £36–48
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ramscraig

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 Ramscraig. 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. 01
    Kirkwall and the Orkney IslandsGB

    9 ways of moving, 35 sources

    89 km
  2. 02
    Isle of SkyeGB

    12 ways of moving, 18 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    223 km
  4. 04
    South Uist and the southern Outer HebridesGB

    11 ways of moving, 25 sources

    254 km
  5. 05
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    258 km

If you know how people move in Ramscraig – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Ramscraig

  • Dunbeathhuman settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK3.9 km
  • Balnabruichhuman settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK2.5 km
  • Borguehuman settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK2.7 km
  • Newporthuman settlement in Caithness, Highland, Scotland, UK2.3 km