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Thurso
Thurso is a community as well as former burgh on the north coast of the Highland council location of Scotland. Situated in the historical location of Caithness, it is the northernmost town on the British mainland. It lies at the joint of the north-south A9 road and the west-east A836 road, connected to Bridge of Forss in the west as well as Castletown in the eastern. The 34-mile (55 km) River Thurso streams with the community and right into Thurso Bay and also the Pentland Firth. The river estuary acts as a small harbour. At the 2011 Census, Thurso had a population of 7,933. The larger Thurso civil parish consisting of the town as well as the bordering countryside had a population of 9,112. Thurso operated as an essential Norse port, and also later traded with ports throughout north Europe until the 19th century. A flourishing fishing centre, Thurso also had a track record for its linen-cloth and tanning activities. Since 2015 the Dounreay Nuclear Research Establishment, although primarily deactivated at the end of the 20th century, employs a substantial number of the regional populace. The Category-A listed destroyed Old St Peter's Church (St. Peter's Kirk) is among the earliest churches in Scotland, dating to at the very least 1125. The current church, St Andrew's as well as St Peter's, was integrated in 1832 to a style by William Burn in the Gothic design. The community consists of the major school of North Highland University and Thurso High School, the northernmost senior high school on the British mainland, which was developed in 1958. Thurso Castle, built in 1872, remains in damages. Thurso is residence to the football (soccer) group, Thurso FC, established in 1998, which play in the North Caledonian League, as well as the rugby teams Caithness Crushers and Caithness RFC. Thurso railway station, opened up in 1874, was one of the most northern station on the Sutherland and Caithness Railway. The close-by port of Scrabster offers ferryboat solutions to the Orkney Islands; the Northlink ferryboat (MV Hamnavoe) runs in between Scrabster as well as Stromness.
