WELCOME
This is a website for friends and family visiting us at Highbrook House. It helps locate the house which can be a challenge as the house is in a remote rural location and the postcode sends you to another house. On this site you are also able to see the many and varied activities to do here in the Highlands of Caithness.
JUST A FEW OF THE ACTIVITIES
Here are just some of the activities, sights and attractions that are within a short distance of Highbrook House:
Dunnet Head
DUNNET HEAD The most northerly point in mainland Britain, Dunnet Head has stunning sea cliffs and coastal grassland. These are home to puffins, razorbills, guillemots and fulmars. Above the cliffs >> Read More
Camster Cairns
CAMSTER CAIRNS Stand among two of the oldest stone monuments in Scotland – a pair of Neolithic tombs originally built more than 5,000 years ago. Although they have been reconstructed >> Read More
Loch Watten
LOCH WATTEN Loch Watten is a short 20 min walk from Highbrook House and can be seen from the driveway. If you want to drive, there is a place to >> Read More
Achanarras Quarry
ACHANARRAS QUARRY Scotland’s ‘fossil quarry’, one of the most famous fossil sites in the world, offering a unique opportunity to discover and learn about 380-million-year-old fish. Located on a wind-swept >> Read More
Ebenezer Place
EBENEZER PLACE The shortest street in the world! Ebenezer Place, in Wick, Caithness, Scotland, is credited by the Guinness Book of Records as being the world's shortest street at 2.06 >> Read More
Northern Lights
NORTHERN LIGHTS A natural wonder that has fascinated mankind for millennia, the Northern Lights (also called the Aurora Borealis) are nature’s very own theatrical performance. It may be a surprise >> Read More
Dunnet Forest
DUNNET FOREST Take a walk into Dunnet Forest which covers over 100 hectares, follow the sculpture trail. If you are lucky you will see all sorts of animals such as >> Read More
Strathy Beach
STRATHY BEACH The beautiful, sheltered and enclosed Strathy Bay is a wide sandy beach This beach and rural bay consists of numerous caves and rocky stacks and is bounded by cliffs >> Read More
Cairn O’Get
CAIRN O'GET Step into a tomb with a history spanning 5,000 years of human activity. Cairn o’Get is an impressive chambered burial cairn set amid a landscape rich in prehistoric >> Read More