Burnside, Caithness

Burnside is a predominantly residential area of

Thurso Thurso (pronounced ; sco, Thursa, gd, Inbhir Theòrsa ) is a town and former burgh on the north coast of the Highland council area of Scotland. Situated in the historical County of Caithness, it is the northernmost town on the island of Great ...

Caithness Caithness ( gd, Gallaibh ; sco, Caitnes; non, Katanes) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. Caithness has a land boundary with the historic county of Sutherland to the west and is otherwise bounded by ...

, in the

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council area {{Unreferenced, date=May 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) A council area is one of the areas defined in Schedule 1 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 and is under the control of one of the local authorities in Scotland created by that Act. ...

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. Much of the district was built up during the latter half of the 20th century, and this development began in the region of the

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which carries the

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over

Wolf Burn The Wolf Burn is a small stream, running from a suspect subterranean source behind the Ormlie housing estate in Thurso, Highland Region in the United Kingdom. Its issue is by Burnside, Caithness. A ribble of stones represents the Wolfburn d ...

, at . A belt of

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land still separates the district from central Thurso.

flows through the district to enter

Thurso Bay Thurso Bay, known also as Scrabster Bay, is a bay of Atlantic water between the points of Clairdon Head and Holborn Head on the north coast of Caithness, Scotland. The bay receives fresh water from the River Thurso and the Wolf Burn. The river ...

and the

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, midway between Thurso town centre to the east and

Scrabster Harbour Scrabster ( sco, Scraibster, gd, Sgrabastair/Sgrabstal) is a small settlement on Thurso Bay in Caithness on the north coast of Scotland. It is some from Thurso, from Wick, from Inverness and 271.7 miles (437.2 km) from Edinburgh. Sc ...

to the west. A

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(

Scrabster Castle Scrabster Castle was a castle, near Burnside, about north and west of Thurso, and south of the village of Scrabster, Highland in Scotland, south of Thurso Bay.Coventry, Martin (1997) ''The Castles of Scotland''. Goblinshead. p.297 It is on ...

) was established near the mouth of Wolf Burn while Caithness was part of the Norse

earldom of Orkney The Earldom of Orkney is the official status of the Orkney, Orkney Islands. It was originally a Norsemen, Norse Feudalism, feudal dignity in Scotland which had its origins from the Viking period. In the ninth and tenth centuries it covered mor ...

: foundations are all that now remain. 'The New Weigh Inn'

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(or

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) is on the eastern edge of the district, at a junction of the

with the A836. Populated places in Caithness Areas in Scotland {{Highland-geo-stub