Halkirk Auld Kirk, Halkirk

Name: Halkirk Auld Kirk
Address: Halkirk, United Kingdom

#1 among attractions in Halkirk

Top attraction, Church

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Halkirk Auld Kirk is a former parish church in Halkirk, Caithness, Scotland. Built in 1753, it stopped being used in 1934 and is now a ruin. Halkirk parish was formed at the time of the Reformation by the union of the Halkirk and Skinnet districts. The "Halkirk Village Old Parish Church And Burial Ground" is a category B listed building. ()

Coordinates: 58°31'1"N, 3°29'11"W

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Halkirk Auld Kirk – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Old St Peter's Church, Ca na Catanach, Braal Castle, Loch Shurrery.

5.6 miN
Historical place, Ruins, Church
Old St Peter's Church, Thurso
143 min walk • Old St Peter's Church is a ruined parish church on Wilson Lane, in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland. Dedicated to Saint Peter, it dates to at least 1125, and at one time was the principal church for the county, administered by the Bishops of Caithness.
5.7 miSW
Hiking, Hiking trail
Ca na Catanach
145 min walk • Ca na Catanach is a road and footpath between Sutherland and Caithness through the moorland in the northeastern Scottish Highlands. Noted as a post-medieval drovers' road in the Highland Historic Environment Record, it is also a 22-mile Heritage Path. Its start point is at Dorrery Lodge and it ends just north of Achentoul.
~1460 ftNE
Forts and castles
Braal Castle
8 min walk • Braal Castle is located by the River Thurso north of the village of Halkirk, in Caithness, northern Scotland. The ruined castle, which dates back to the mid-14th century, was originally known as the Castle of Brathwell.
6.2 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Loch Shurrery
158 min walk • Loch Shurrery is a small, shallow, lowland freshwater loch lying approximately 8 mi south west of Thurso in the Scottish Highlands. The loch has a somewhat elliptical shape with a perimeter of 7.4 km. It is approximately 1.25 mi long, has an average depth of 4.5 ft and is 7 ft at its deepest.
3.9 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Loch Calder
100 min walk • Loch Calder is a lowland freshwater loch lying approximately 5 mi south west of Thurso in the Scottish Highlands. The loch is large with an irregular shape and has perimeter of 12.8 km.
6.1 miNE
Village
Castletown
156 min walk • Castletown is a village on the north coast of the Highland council area of Scotland, situated near Dunnet Bay. It is within the civil parish of Olrig, where it is the main settlement, and within the historic county of Caithness.
5.5 miN
Church
St Peter's and St Andrew's Church, Thurso
140 min walk • St Peter's and St Andrew's Church is located on Princes Street in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland. The church was built to a design of William Burn in 1830–2, a simplified version of the Church of St John the Evangelist, Edinburgh, which is also attributed to Burn.
5 miN
Universities and schools
North Highland College, Scrabster
128 min walk • North Highland College provides further education and higher education in the north of Scotland through a network of learning centres and by distance learning. It is a constituent college of the University of the Highlands and Islands.