Kinbrace is a small village in
Sutherland in the
Highland
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council area {{Unreferenced, date=May 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot)
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of
Scotland
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. It lies at the junction of the
A897 and
B871 and is from
Helmsdale
Helmsdale ( sco, Helmsdal, gd, Bun Ilidh) is a village on the east coast of Sutherland, in the Highland council area of Scotland. The modern village was planned in 1814 to resettle communities that had been removed from the surrounding straths ...
by road. The village has a station on the
Far North Line
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(also named
Kinbrace).
[Helmsdale Community website's page on Kinbrace]
/ref> Few people live in the village, with the population standing at 51 in the 2011 Census.
The village is represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom constituency of Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, where it is represented by Jamie Stone of the Scottish Liberal Democrats
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. It is represented in the Scottish Parliament by Rob Gibson
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of the Scottish National Party.
Climate
As with the rest of the British Isles
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and Scotland, Kinbrace experiences a maritime climate
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with mild summers and cool winters. It is nonetheless one of the more frost prone locations in the country, with notable temperatures including a minimum of during March 2001, and a daytime maximum of during November 1985,
Notable people
* Angus Ross died in Kinbrace
See also
* Auchentoul
References
Populated places in Sutherland
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