Greenland House B&B

03/10/2026

There’s still time for that relaxing last minute trip to the far North, before the darkness of winter falls upon us. Although many tourist experiences have now closed their doors for the winter season, the far North still has so much to offer; from tranquil beaches, forests and scenery, to a vast array of wildlife and history. Whether solo or in a group, come and stay in our homely B&B or self-catering lodge. Don’t want to drive here? That’s fine. Buses are frequent enough to the nearby towns of Wick and Thurso (and Inverness), where you can join the train and connect with Inverness, or you can even fly from Wick down to Aberdeen or Glasgow.
Castletown offers one of the UK's best beaches, aswell as 2 restaurants, 3 food takeaways, a wh**ky distillery, a heritage centre, a butcher, hairdressers, sauna, and a local shop. Open throughout the year. Contact us for details.

www.greenlandhousebandb.co.uk

20/09/2026

Our latest project. Available soon!

21/08/2026

20/08/2026

We have last minute availability from today Thursday 20th August through to Friday 28th August. Book direct with us through our website and save 10% on these selected days.

Greenland House B&B
Licence No: HI-00902-F

Victoria and Jan Eirik would like to wish you a warm welcome to Greenland house. We are a period eight-bedroom former highland bank house, built in 1905. Ideally situated in the small quiet village of Castletown (near Thurso) in the Northern Highlands of Scotland, we are directly on the North coast....

23/07/2026

Next week, we welcome our friends from The Highland Pipes and Drums of Bad Waldsee, Germany to Wick to mark 30years of friendship between our two bands.

You’ll find us on Friday 24th July in John O’Groats playing between 1:30 and 2:30pm and then at Stannergill Mill, Castletown, at 7pm.

The Bad Waldsee band will also join us on Saturday 25th July at Halkirk Games, alongside Caithness Youth Pipe Band and Thurso and District Pipe Band, and leading the annual Wick Gala parade of floats through the town.

25/06/2026

16/06/2026

🪨 The pavements of Victorian London were paved with Caithness stone. The flagstones under the feet of Edinburgh's New Town, the pathways of cities across the British Empire, the courtyard floors of institutions whose architects demanded something flat and durable and permanent — much of it came from a remote corner of the far north of Scotland where the geological accident of near-perfect horizontal cleavage in the local sandstone made the production of flat flags a natural operation rather than a difficult one.

Caithness flagstone is an Old Red Sandstone formation of the Devonian period, laid down approximately three hundred and seventy million years ago in the shallow lakes of a semi-arid landscape that would become the far north of Scotland. The sandstone was deposited in thin horizontal layers under specific conditions of seasonal flooding and evaporation, and those conditions produced a stone that splits naturally along its bedding planes into slabs of remarkable flatness, consistency, and durability. The fossil fish preserved in some Caithness flagstone beds — the extraordinary Devonian fauna documented by Hugh Miller — were deposited in the same lake sediments that produced the industry.

The flagstone industry at Castletown and across Caithness reached its peak in the mid-nineteenth century, when the demand for urban paving across Britain and the empire coincided with the development of shipping routes that could carry heavy stone from the far north coast economically. At its height, dozens of quarries were operating across Caithness and thousands of tons of flags were exported annually from small harbours whose modest scale belied the global reach of their trade.

The quarries are now largely silent. Concrete replaced flagstone for most purposes in the twentieth century. But the Caithness flags are still there, under the feet of London and Edinburgh, outlasting the industry that laid them.

17/05/2026

Norwegian guests, so flags out for Norwegian national day, 17th of May breakfast 🇳🇴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

30/04/2026

We'll be open this week on Thursday and Friday, from 5pm to 7pm. Hjertelig velkommen 💚

25/04/2026

The Green Viking catering 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇳🇴🇬🇧