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Human settlement in Scotland

Haster

Haster is a small remote rural hamlet and district in Wick, in the Highland area of Scotland.

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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.

How locals move

Getting around Haster the local way

  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Wick (Scotland), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Mike Peel (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.