* Thurso — A small community reaching from Thurso Bay to the crossroads at the church

The base of a small tower, built either by the Cheynes in the 14th century or the Gunns in the 15th century, lies on a rock above the river Thurso in a lonely position far inland.

Watten ( Gaelic: Bhatan ) is a small village in Caithness, in the Highland area of Scotland, on the main road ( A882-A9 ) between the county town of Wick and the burgh of Thurso, about twelve kilometres ( eight miles ) west of Wick and close to Wick River and to Loch Watten.

His herbarium, which consisted of about 200 folios of mosses, ferns and flowering plants " almost unique in its completeness ," is now stored, with many of his fossils, in the museum at Thurso.

Fraser's 3, 700 employees work in several pulp and paper mills in North America, including in Madawaska, Maine and in New Hampshire in the US, and Thurso, Quebec, and Edmundston, New Brunswick in Canada.

Thurso also has a music shop which sells music accessories, gifts, instruments & offers tuition in accordion, guitar & keyboard.

Meanwhile his father, who in 1826 had been removed to Thurso, as supervisor of excise, advised his son to set up a baker's shop in that town.

From Scrabster Harbour ( Ordnance Survey ), the A9 runs generally east / southeast through Thurso, and then generally south towards Inverness, Perth and the M9 motorway near Stirling and Falkirk.

* http :// www. travelscotland. co. uk / guide / Thurso-Another guide to Thurso and also local area

From there the single-track line continues north / northeast through Sutherland to Thurso and Wick in Caithness.

*** generally north / northeast to Thurso and

** From the A836 / A9 in central Thurso the B874 leads generally south towards Halkirk.

The famous John o ' Groats, Mey ( site of the Castle of Mey ), and many smaller villages are also to be found on the Caithness side as is the town of Thurso and Scrabster Harbour in Thurso Bay, on the western fringe of the Firth.

Thurso has a fine harbour and beach and looks out over the Pentland Firth to the Orkney island of Hoy and the famous towering Old Man of Hoy ( a stack of rock standing out from the main island ).

( Caithness Amateur Athletics Club ) where Thurso have some very successful athletes, such as Moira Macbeath and Lynda Haygarth.

The Thurso courts are one of only two such facilities in Caithness, with the other residing in Wick.

Along with Thurso the village grew dramatically in the mid-20th century with the development of the experimental nuclear power facility at Dounreay, where technologies such as fast breeder reactors were developed.

The establishment remained a major element in the economy of Thurso and Caithness until 1994 when the government ordered the reactors closed for good ; a large population employed in the clean-up of the site ( which is scheduled to continue until at least 2025 ) remains.

Then Karl's nephew Mutatan or Muddan, appointed to rule Caithness for him, was killed at Thurso by Thorkel the Fosterer.

Jon Haraldsson who was murdered in Thurso in 1231, was the last of an unbroken line of Norse jarls, and thereafter the earls were Scots noblemen of the houses of Angus and St. Clair.

Andrew Geddes Bain ( baptised 11 June 1797 Thurso, Scotland-20 October 1864 Cape Town ), South African geologist, road engineer, palaeontologist and explorer.

In the West the ferry from Scrabster to Stromness operated by NorthLink is the oldest continuous ferry service across the firth by the ferry MV Hamnavoe, started in 1856 as a continuation of the railhead at Thurso.

For example, the 3rd Viscount Thurso ( aka John Thurso ) is currently a member of the House of Commons.

In 2001, John Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso, became the first British hereditary peer to be elected to the Commons and take his seat.

John Archibald Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso ( born 10 September 1953 ), known as John Thurso, is a Scottish businessman and Liberal Democrat politician.

John Sinclair was educated in Thurso and at Eton College.

Thurso joined the Savoy Group as a management trainee in 1972 and following this worked for many years in the hospitality industry.

During his time in this job he featured in the TV documentary Trouble at the Top-Shape up with Lord Thurso.

Lord Thurso comes from a family of Liberal politicians.

Archibald Sinclair was the 1st Viscount Thurso and a Liberal Party leader.

Thurso has been married to Marion for 26 years and they have a daughter and two sons.

The family live at Thurso, Caithness.

Thurso holds the Presidency of The Tourism Society and the Academy of Food and Wine Service.

Following his father ’ s death in 1995 he took his seat in the House of Lords as the 3rd Viscount Thurso where he was spokesman on tourism and later food matters.

Thurso spoke many times in the House of Lords in favour of Lords reform.

The second segment, starts in the west to link downtown Hull ( part of Gatineau ) to Thurso just east of Buckingham.

** Future: A-50 will be completed between the western side of Hull's downtown to A-15 and Route 117 at Mirabel, closing the remaining 55 km gap in the freeway between Thurso and Grenville.

** Extensions opened in October and November 2008 to add some 15 km to Thurso on the west segment and some 13 km from Grenville on the east segment.

The teaching is Socratic, typically with small classes, and often boasts a lower student-to-teacher ratio than at large universities ; professors teaching classes are allowed to concentrate more on their teaching responsibilities than primary research professors or graduate student teaching assistants, in contrast to the instruction common in universities.

Besides the pure beauty of Appalachia, the park also boasts extensive trails, campgrounds, a venue for large group picnics, a small hilltop lake and of course, Macedonia Brook.

Despite its relatively small size, Bristol, Virginia boasts one of the most advanced broadband networks in the country.

Ruidoso boasts several small suburbs and neighbor communities including Ruidoso Downs, Hollywood, Mescalero, and Alto which contribute to the Ruidoso Micropolitan Statistical Area's population of 21, 224.

Despite its small size, Bethany Beach boasts the usual attractions of a summer seaside resort, including a short boardwalk, a broad, sandy beach, motels, restaurants, and vacation homes.

Today, Shoshone still has one bar, but also boasts a cafe, a movie theater, and a grocery store — unusual for such a small town.

Utica boasts a small historic district centered around Cass Avenue and Auburn Road, but few of the buildings predate 1906, due to destructive fires in 1905 and 1906.

A portion of the small village of Kinderdijk, which boasts the largest and most famous concentration of windmills in the Netherlands, is part of Alblasserdam.

For a town that was until very recently a small farming community, Manorville boasts a long and significant history. The area now known as Manorville once lay within the huge tract of land known as

The small community boasts 5 churches.

Boreray boasts the Cleitean MacPhàidein, a " cleit village " of three small bothies used on a regular basis during fowling expeditions.

The village boasts a village hall and many small but beautiful gardens.

It boasts a Recreation Hall, a small golf course and ' Pangarap ,' a guesthouse where Dona Josefa Edralin Marcos lived for some time.

The subplot of Myra Breckinridge revolves around the character of Letitia Van Allen, an aging, sexually voracious talent scout whom Myra meets and befriends at the academy, whose office boasts a four-poster bed and whose kinky sexual practices (" Those small attentions a girl like me cherishes … a lighted cigarette stubbed out on my derrière, a complete beating with his great thick heavy leather belt …") landed her in hospital, " half paralyzed ", at the same time Myra finds herself there towards the end of the novel.

The village has developed a reputation for a somewhat bohemian lifestyle and boasts a number of small cafes, pubs and galleries.

Parsippany boasts a small cafe, offices for staff, a student computer lab, a student workroom, and 13 classrooms operating with a broadband WiFi network.

The village boasts a small general store with a cafe ; a takeaway ; the Plockton Shores restaurant ; newsagent and craft shop ; three hotels with pubs ; numerous B & Bs ; library with free internet access and a village hall, which holds community events and art exhibitions.

For its small size, Kuji boasts a wealth of local specialties and tourist attractions.

Although the population of Ibara is small it boasts 6 JET Programme ALTs.

Most of it is covered in forest that has been undisturbed for decades, and even centuries, with the result that its oak and beech woods are among the most untouched and impressive in Germany, and the island boasts a rich diversity of birds and small mammals.

The community boasts a small post office, community center, park, and a volunteer fire department.

The town boasts a small award winning museum housed in a Telford Church, An Talla Solais an arts centre with frequently changing exhibitions and workshops, a swimming pool and fitness centre, and several pubs ( including the Arch Inn on the shores of Loch Broom, Argyll ), bed and breakfasts ( including Riverview, Eilean Donan Guesthouse, Spindrift, and Broombank ), restaurants and hotels.

The village boasts a number of small shops, a post office, a village hall & library, a primary school, a doctor's surgery and two pubs: the Anchor ( in the Bonington part ) and the King's Head ( in the Sutton part ).

Over the past decade the small town centre has been reinvigorated and besides numerous restaurants and cafes now boasts a number of unusual and high-quality shops, you will find two bakers, a delicatessen with a fishmonger, two hardware stores, two butchers, craft shops, bookshops, art galleries and a gardening shop.