Durness
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|---|---|
 Sango Bay | |
  Durness Location within the Sutherland area | |
| Population | 347 [1] (2011 census) |
| OS grid reference | NC403677 |
| • Edinburgh | 190 mi (306 km) |
| • London | 521 mi (838 km) |
| Council area | |
| Lieutenancy area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LAIRG |
| Postcode district | IV27 |
| Dialling code | 01971 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
| Scottish Parliament | |
Durness (Scottish Gaelic: Diùranais) is a village and civil parish in the north-west Highlands of Scotland. It lies on the north coast of the country in the traditional county of Sutherland, around 120 miles (190 kilometres) north of Inverness. The area is remote, and the parish is huge and sparsely populated, covering an area from east of Loch Eriboll to Cape Wrath, the most north-westerly point of the Scottish mainland.[2]
The population is dispersed and includes a number of townships including Kempie, Eriboll, Laid, Rispond, Sangobeg, Leirinmore, Smoo, Sangomore, Durine, Balnakeil and Keoldale.
- ^ "Standard Outputs #124; Census Data Explorer". Scotland's Census. Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ Groome, F.H (1885). "Parish of Durness". Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Archived from the original on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2013.