Latheronwheel () is a small village in Caithness, in the Highland area of Scotland.It is southwest of Lybster on the A9 road to Helmsdale, near the junction with the A99 road to Wick, which lies in the equally small village of Latheron. Dunbeath lies to the south-west and Lybster to the north-east.
The village is at the mouth of a wide valley, through which flows a small river called the Burn of Latheronwheel.
History
The settlement was built on the land of one Captain Dunbar (who had actually wished for it to be called Janetston, after his wife and a stone tablet reflects this on the old hotel).