Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Hauster

Hauster, a burn of Wick parish, E Caithness, rising on the Latheron border at an altitude of 556 feet, and winding 8 ¼ miles north-north-eastward till it falls into Wick Water at a point 1 ¼ mile W of Wick town. In the first 5 miles of its course it traverses Yarehouse and Hempriggs Lochs; and sometimes it bears the name of Thrumster Burn.—Ord. Sur., shs. 110, 116, 1877-78.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a burn"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Wick ScoP       Caithness ScoCnty

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