Upper Lybster is a scattered and crofting village, situated 2 miles north of

Lybster Lybster (, gd, Liabost) is a village on the east coast of Caithness in northern Scotland. It was once a big herring fishing port. The Waterlines heritage museum is located in Lybster Harbour and provides information on the history and geology o ...

, in eastern

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and is in the

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council area of

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Gallery

File:Lower Smerlie - geograph.org.uk - 85655.jpg, Lower Smerlie. Cuigs croft lower Smerlie. Typical croft land that once had many small crofts like this one. File:Lybster Harbour - geograph.org.uk - 1657132.jpg, Lybster Harbour File:Sea action in Lybster Bay - geograph.org.uk - 324801.jpg, High seas at Lybster Harbour File:The Old Mill, Clashnaharribeg, Upper Lybster - geograph.org.uk - 227567.jpg, The Old Mill, Clashnaharribeg, Upper Lybster. Derelict Croft House and outbuildings File:Gray's Place, Lybster - geograph.org.uk - 480731.jpg, Gray's Place, Lybster The wide main street of this C19th 'planned village'. No mean feat to stretch bunting diagonally across it! File:Lybster Free Church - geograph.org.uk - 480739.jpg, Lybster Free Church File:Lybster old Free Church - geograph.org.uk - 14710.jpg, Lybster old Free Church. File:Ruins of croft house, Upper Smerlie - geograph.org.uk - 42092.jpg, Ruins of croft house, Upper Smerlie. This old house was occupied up until the 1980s and was not long unoccupied when struck by lightning. The land around has many similar such old croft houses scattered around. File:Early Christian Incised Cross in shelter by church - geograph.org.uk - 914903.jpg, Early Christian Incised Cross in shelter by church File:Long Cairn from Round Cairn - geograph.org.uk - 910123.jpg, Long Cairn from Round Cairn

References

Populated places in Caithness {{Highland-geo-stub