Haster is a small remote rural hamlet and district in

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, in the

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area of

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. It is located just west of the Bridge of Haster, which carries the

A882 road The A882 road is entirely within Caithness in the Highland (council area), Highland area of Scotland. It has a length of about and runs generally west/northwest from the A99 road (Great Britain), A99 in the county town of Wick, Caithness, Wick ...

linking the

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and

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over the Achairn Burn to the main

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. It is about west of Wick and about east of Watten. An older village centre is about half a mile to the south. Haster has two

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s and a football pitch, and there is a memorial fountain dedicated to General Lord Horne in the hamlet. The ruins of St Cuthbert's Church is close to the hamlet. Thought to have measured , in 1726 it was described as the "Chapell of Haulster - the common people bury their dead about it".

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{{reflist Populated places in Caithness Wick, Caithness