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Attractions in Strathy & Things to Do in Strathy
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Strathnaver Museum
(9 Miles)*
Strathnaver Museum is a locally run museum which first opened to the public in 1976. It is housed in what was St Columba's Parish Church at the eastern end of Bettyhill on the north coast of Sutherland. |
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Laidhay Croft Museum
(28 Miles)*
Laidhay Croft is a typical ancient long-house or byre-dwelling that was once a common feature of the Scottish rural landscape. |
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Stromness Museum
(36 Miles)*
Stromness Museum was instituted in 1837 and holds Orkney's principal Maritime, Ethnographic and Natural History Collections. |
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Dunrobin Castle
(38 Miles)*
Dunrobin Castle is the most northerly of Scotland's great houses. It is the largest house in the highlands, and is one of Britains oldest continuously inhabited houses, dating in part from the early 1300s. |
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Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle & Henge
(40 Miles)*
The ancient Ring of Brodgar is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site which focuses on various neolithic sites on the Mainland of Orkney. |
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Skara Brae Prehistoric Village
(40 Miles)*
Skara Brae contains the best preserved group of Stone Age houses in Western Europe. |
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Maeshowe Chambered Cairn
(42 Miles)*
Maes Howe is the finest megalithic tomb in north-west Europe, with a large mound covering a stone-built passage and a large burial chamber with cells in the walls. |
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Corrigall Farm Museum
(44 Miles)*
Experience Orkney Farm and Folk life at the Kirkbuster and Corrigall farm museums. Buildings and grounds include a working barn with grain kiln; traditional crafts and livestock; horse drawn implements and machines. |
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Orkney Museum
(46 Miles)*
Orkney Museum features Pre-historic and Viking Orkney in one of Scotland's finest displays, in the town house and gardens of an Orkney Laird. |
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Orkney Wireless Museum
(46 Miles)*
This museum specialises in Orkney wartime and domestic radio memorabilia. |
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Balfour Castle
(49 Miles)*
Balfour Castle was completed in 1848 to the order of the then owner, David Balfour, 4th Laird of Balfour and Trenabie. The Castle is said to incorporate 7 turrets, 12 exterior doors, 52 rooms and 365 panes of glass. |
Above, you'll find a list of the Tourist Attractions in Strathy and things to do in Strathy (and nearby) listed on AboutBritain.com.
So if you're wondering what to do in Strathy, simply click on some of the links on this page to see detailed information on places to go.
As you can see, there's plenty of ideas for family days out in Strathy and the surrounding area - so you need never be short of places to go and things to do in Strathy again.
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