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Description & Travel information for Caithness and places above it in the hierarchy

Caithness

Caithness Community Website has much useful local information including Caithness Castles , and a History section including Calder's History of Caithness (parts of the text).

The Scottish Citylink website with timetables.

For those more inclined to rail travel, Network Rail provides a very worthwhile train travel information, allowing from/to stations specifications on certain days, and the program will supply a complete itineary for the journey.

An Internet Guide to Scotland is produced by Joanne Mackenzie-Winters.

Scotland

There are many websites which can be helpful for finding out about Scotland, whether you are planning to visit or not. Here are just a few of them (in no particular order):

  • Scotland.org
  • Scottish Tourist Board
  • About Scotland
  • Travel Scotland
  • Historic Scotland
  • Friends of Scotland - Aspects of contemporary Scotland including culture, education and business, a website supported by government.
  • Statistical Accounts of Scotland - not just statistics, "Accounts of Scottish life from the 18th and 19th centuries" with a mass of descriptive information on a parish-by-parish basis.
  • The Old Home Town has photographs and comments about various communities, which include Cromarty, Orkney, Invergordon, Tain, Fortrose and Rosemarkie, Inverness.
  • Geograph is a co-operative project aiming to put a photograph from every 1 kilometre grid square of the UK and Ireland free on Internet. At November 2014 it has almost 4,223,000 images covering 82% of grid squares including photos of churches, and many town and village centres and streets.
You can see pictures of Scotland which are provided by:

UK and Ireland