Helmsdale, Sutherland, Highland - Harbour - nice postcard by Anne Baxter c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  The Harbour, Helmsdale [East Sutherland, Highland region of Scotland]
• Publisher: Anne Baxter, Golspie & Tain
• Postally used: no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Helmsdale (Scots: Helmsdal,^[1] Scottish Gaelic: Bun Ilidh)^[2] is a village on the east coast of Sutherland, in the Highlandcouncil area of Scotland. The modern village was planned in 1814 to resettle communities that had been removed from the surrounding straths as part of the Highland Clearances.

Helmsdale is a fishing port at the estuary of the River Helmsdale, and was once the home of one of the largest herringfleets in Europe. The river itself is well known for its fishing. West Helmsdale lies across the river from the main village above the railway station; Old Helmsdale is immediately to the north while East Helmsdale is a settlement less than a mile to the east.

The village is on the A9 road, at a junction with the A897, and has a railway station on the Far North Line. Buses operate about every two hours from Monday to Saturday and infrequently on Sundays from Helmsdale to Brora, Golspie, Dornoch, Tain and Inverness in the south and Berriedale, Dunbeath, Halkirk, Thurso and Scrabster in the north. These are on route X99 and are operated by Stagecoach in the Highlands, but tickets can be bought on the Citylink website. Facilities in Helmsdale include an independent youth hostel, a heritage centre, an art gallery, and an inn.

Helmsdale Castle, the remains of which were demolished in the 1970s in order to build the new A9 road bridge, was the location of the murder of the 11th Earl of Sutherland in 1567.^[3] The Earl and his Countess Marie Seton were poisoned by Isobel Sinclair.^[4]

The previous bridge, which still stands, was designed by Thomas Telford^[5] and completed in 1811.^[6]