Dunnet Head

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Dunnet Head,

sandstone promontory, 341 ft (104 m) high, Highland, NE Scotland. It is the northern extremity of the Scottish mainland.

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The family graveyard is at Dunnet Head - a peninsula in Caithness which includes the most northerly point of the mainland of Britain.

My life is too scandalous to write about - so I made a movie; Doctor, lawyer and socialite Anna Brocklebank on her debut film

Pressing on, we took another stop to see Dunnet Head.

HIGH OLD TIME; Laura Kilner finds family fun, ancient treasures and dolphins galore in Highlands and islands

During the trip he will pass through locations such as Dunnet Head, the most northerly point in the UK; Whalley, the most central point; Holme Fen, the lowest point, and he will even climb up Ben Nevis, the highest point in the UK.

Fundraiser invites you to cycle with him

The Walking Detective is an account of his trek of over 1,000 miles from Lizard in Cornwall to Dunnet Head, near John O'Groats.

True crimes a guilty pleasure; Local detective turned true-crime writer Paul Heslop has spent his life searching for the truth. VICKY ROBSON gives him a grilling

The boatcaught record for a Porbeagle is 507lb, taken in 1993 by C Bennett off Dunnet Head, Scotland.

Boats affected by the weather; SEA ANGLING

Blathaon has been identified as John o' Groats or Dunnet Head in Caithness, and Sarre is in eastern Kent.

England and Britain: Alan MacColl explores exactly what the word Britain meant, after the Romans had gone

Actually, it is Dunnet Head, 15 miles west of there.

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The Bay's own scenic delights apart - Dunnet Head is the most northerly headland in Britain - it's an ideal base from which to explore the many attractions the coast has to offer.

Life on the open road

DUNNET HEAD, Len Lungo's well-regarded Ayr bumper winner, has died from a heart attack.

In brief

For that ride Adrian Hinchcliffe, who now lives near Newcastle, was joined by his brother John "Inky" Hinchcliffe (69), who lives in Dorset, and Bernard Heath (76), and living at Dunnet Head, near John o' Groats.

Publisher sought

In 1952 the Queen Mother saw the castle during a stay at the nearby house of Northern Gate on Dunnet Head.

Queen Mother's room to be opened to the public

Villagers living close to Dunnet Head on the north coast of Scotland were moved as fears grew about the potentially explosive cargo on board the Multitank Ascania.