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Latheron, Hospital
Hospital (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Latheron, Hospital
Classification Hospital (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Canmore ID 8174
Site Number ND13SE 54
NGR ND 198 335
NGR Description ND c. 198 335
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Latheron
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND13SE 54 c. 198 335.
There is some evidence for an ecclesiastical foundation at Latheron (informmation from Geoffrey Stell) (ND 198 335), which might have been one of the stages on the pilgrim route north to the shrine of St Magnus at Kirkwall (HY41SW 10). This may have been the 'hospital' at which English envoys were accommodated on the night of 3rd October 1290 on their way to the Orkneys to attend the reception of the Maid of Norway. Having passed the previous night at Helmsdale, they were apparently still a day's journey from Wick, where they spent the night of the 4th. Assuming they travelled by the coast, this would place the hospital somewhere in the vicinity of Latheron. (See also ND13SE 18.)
Cowan, apparently erroneously, locates the hospital to Ousdale.
I B Cowan and D E Easson 1976; B E Crawford 1982.
