Lybster Harbour (Port Code:GBLYB) was built as a fishing harbour 1849, and rebuilt 1882 at the expense of the Duke of Portland. Lybster lies on the spectacular road north along the coast of Sutherland and Caithness to Wick, alongside green-topped cliffs and churning bays. A village very closely connected to the fishing industry. Once over 100 boats sailed in and out of the harbour. There is still a lot of evidence of fishing in terms of the boats moored in the harbour and the lobster pots and other fishing gear piled around it.
It is a really superb working harbour in a stunning setting between encircling headlands. It is a complex harbour with four basins. The quay walls have recently been sheet-piled. At the entrance is a small octagonal lighthouse, with a domed lantern. There are two storehouses, one of them three-storey and six-bay, the other two-storey and six-bay; upstream are the ruins of a two-storey, four-bay store, and of a mill. The inner harbour was completed as recently as 1950. The harbour is still used mainly for fishing, but the number of working boats is down to twenty or so. Leisure craft now fill the inner harbour.