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Mybster Crossroads

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Mybster Crossroads
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Location
Mybster
County
Caithness
Highway Authority
Transport Scotland
Junction Type
Crossroads
Roads Joined
A9, B870

Mybster Crossroads lies on the edge of the flow country in Caithness, with the surrounding landscape dotted with the houses and farms that make up the scattered village of Mybster. A patchwork of fields and forestry surround Mybster, with open moorland to the south west home to wind turbines. It is a bleak and barren landscape in winter, but there is still a certain beauty to it.

The crossroads is where the B870 crosses the main A9 trunk road north to Thurso, with simple give way lines, thanks to the generally low levels of traffic this far north. There is a very slight stagger to the two arms of the B road, predominantly caused by the sharp angle of the eastern arm which heads off north east. The A9 itself runs almost due north through the junction, with the western arm of the B870 heading off to the west to Westerdale, where it also turns north and aims for Thurso.

Until relatively recently, the main road through the junction was the A895, the A9 only being rerouted to Thurso in the 1990s. Originally, however, it was the B873, until the late 1920s and the B870 route only gained its number in the mid 1930s, previously being unclassified.


Routes

Route To Notes

A9

Thurso, Scrabster

A9

Inverness

B870

Watten 6

B870

Westerdale




Mybster Crossroads
Junctions on the A9
Falkirk to DunblaneCadgers Brae Roundabout  • Icehouse Brae Roundabout  • Bog Roundabout  • Westfield Roundabout  • Etna Road Roundabout  • Abbots Road Roundabout  • Abbotsford Park Roundabout  • Mungalend Roundabout  • Merchiston Roundabout  • Rosebank Roundabout  • Camelon Roundabout  • Glenbervie Interchange  • Greencornhills Roundabout  • St Ninians Roundabout  • Linden Ave Roundabout • Craigs Roundabout • Customs Roundabout  • Causewayhead Roundabout  • Airthrey Roundabout  • Wallace Roundabout
Dunblane to PerthKeir Roundabout  • Dunblane West  • Dunblane North  • Greenloaning  • Loaninghead  • Auchterarder  • Aberuthven  • Dunning  • Broxden Roundabout • St. Johnstone Interchange • Inveralmond Roundabout
Perth to AviemoreLuncarty Bridge • Bankfoot • Little Dunkeld Junctions  • Ballinluig Junction • Moulinearn • Pitlochry South • Pitlochry North • Bruar  • Calvine • Trinafour • Wade Bridge Junction • Ralia  • Kingussie Interchange
Aviemore to ToreLynwilg  • Granish • Carrbridge • Tomatin • Milton of Leys  • Inshes  • Raigmore Interchange • Longman Roundabout  • North Kessock  • Munlochy  • Tore Roundabout
Tore to ThursoDuncanston Crossroads  • Ardullie Roundabout • Evanton • Struie • Dalmore • Kildary  • Nigg Roundabout  • Tain • Glenmorangie • Meikle Ferry Roundabout • Clashmore • Evelix • The Mound • Helmsdale • Latheron • Mybster Crossroads • Georgemas  • Thurso


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