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Human settlement in Scotland · United Kingdom

# Smerral

Smerral is a small hamlet on the eastern coast of Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

The place

Smerral is a small hamlet on the eastern coast of Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. It lies 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Latheronwheel. Smerral is the location of an iron age broch. The broch measures some 18.5 metres (61 ft) by 3 metres (9.8 ft).

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smerral), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

## Getting to Smerral

**Airports:** Aberdeen (ABZ), 139 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 259 km · Glasgow (GLA), 275 km\

- Aberdeen → Smerral 149 km · quickest by road, 4h 34m · £27–37 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/aberdeen-to-smerral) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Aberdeen&to=Smerral)
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Smerral 261 km · quickest by road, 5h 18m · £35–46 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ingliston-edinburgh-to-smerral) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ingliston%2C+Edinburgh&to=Smerral)
- Glasgow → Smerral 274 km · quickest by road, 5h 36m · £37–49 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/glasgow-to-smerral) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Glasgow&to=Smerral)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Smerral)

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 Smerral

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 Smerral. 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 82 km
2. [Isle of Skye](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/skye) GB 12 ways of moving, 18 sources 200 km
3. [The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and Canna](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/small-isles) GB 9 ways of moving, 20 sources 229 km
4. [South Uist and the southern Outer Hebrides](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/south-uist) GB 11 ways of moving, 25 sources 260 km
5. [Isle of Coll](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coll) GB 7 ways of moving, 16 sources 265 km

If you know how people move in Smerral – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Csmerral&title=Smerral&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fsmerral), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Smerral

- [Dunbeath](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dunbeath) human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK 3.5 km
- [Latheron](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/latheron) human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK 1.7 km
- [Latheronwheel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/latheronwheel) human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK 1.5 km
- [Houstry](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/houstry) human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK 3.1 km

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