Attractions in Orkney

Scotland, UK

This tall lighthouse, 34m (112ft) high, on the low flat island of Auskerry was built in 1866. It was bombed by German...

Hoy, Orkney, Scotland, UK

A mixture of moorland and cliffs, some over 300m high. Great skuas breed on the moor along with red grouse, dunlins and...

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Dounby, Orkney, KW17

The last surviving horizontal water mill in Orkney, of type well represented in Shetland and Lewis. In working order. It...

Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland, UK

One of the remotest and most impressive of all the tombs on Orkney. It has a long central chamber containing twelve...

Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland, UK

Buried some 2 metres below the ground this well-built earth house has a narrow passage leading to an oval chamber.

Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland, UK

This earth house, in a farm yard, was discovered in 1926 when a threshing machine went through its roof. The large oval...

Shapinsay, Orkney, Scotland, UK

This wetland reserve has eight species of breeding duck, including pintails and pochard, plus waders and water rails. In...

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Scotland, UK

Scotland, UK

Isle of Wyre, Orkney, Scotland, UK

This simple 12th century building was once the chapel of a Christian Norse family.

Aikerness, Orkney, KW17 2NH

Surrounded by a warren of Iron Age buildings, this broch probably dates to the first century AD.

Scotland, UK

This 1898 lighthouse, built at the edge of spectacular 79m (260ft) high cliffs on the Island of Westray, was the first to...

Stenness, Stromness, Orkney, KW16 3HA

The finest megalithic tomb in the British Isles, built in Neolithic times before 2700 BC. Runic inscriptions tell of how...

Lyness, Hoy, Orkney Islands, KW16 3NU

Displays in the naval base pumphouse tell the story of Scapa Flow in two world wars.

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