Swordly

Swordly () is an extremely remote hamlet, located on the Bay of Swordly, on the north coastline of

Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...

Sutherland Sutherland () is a Counties of Scotland, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area in the Scottish Highlands, Highlands of Scotland. The name dates from the Scandinavian Scotland, Viking era when t ...

Scottish Highlands The Highlands (; , ) is a historical region of Scotland. Culturally, the Highlands and the Scottish Lowlands, Lowlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Scots language, Lowland Scots language replaced Scottish Gae ...

and is in the

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

council area of

Highland Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally, ''upland'' refers to a range of hills, typically from up to , while ''highland'' is usually reserved for range ...

. The village of

Bettyhill Bettyhill () is a village in the parish of Farr, on the north coast of Scotland. Bettyhill lies on the A836 road west of Thurso and from Tongue. It lies from the village of Skerray; its former fishing port was called Navermouth. To the ea ...

is located 2 miles west along the main

A836 The A836 is a major road entirely within the Highland area of Scotland. It is long and runs from Ross and Cromarty to Caithness, with the majority of its length in Sutherland. At 58.648°N where it passes through East Mey, it is the northernm ...

road. The villages of Farr and

Crask Crask is a small remote hamlet, situated on Farr Bay in the Scottish Highlands, on the shore of northern Sutherland in the Scottish council area of Highland. The village of Bettyhill lies less than to the west along the A836 The A836 is ...

lie directly west, and the village of Kirtomy, situated on Kirtomy Bay lies to the east. Populated places in Sutherland Swordly {{Sutherland-geo-stub