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Historic Attractions in Orkney Islands
Subcategory: Abbeys, Churches & Cathedrals, Castles & Stately Homes, Historic Sites & Monuments, Lighthouses or Towns & Villages
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Finstown, Orkney, Scotland, UK
A magnificent chambered cairn with a beautifully constructed inner chamber containing four side cells. Reached by...
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Scotland, UK
This tall lighthouse, 34m (112ft) high, on the low flat island of Auskerry was built in 1866. It was bombed by German...
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Scotland, UK
This is the most isolated lighthouse in the British Isles. It was built in 1895 on Sule Skerry a 35 acre island that lies...
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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...
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Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, UK
This historic town developed during the 18th century after it was chosen by the Hudson's Bay Company as a base for...
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Scotland, UK
This cliff top lighthouse was built in 1915 at the request of the Admiralty to mark an approach from the north to the...
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Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, UK
This great stone circle surrounded by a massive ditch, once 3 metres deep and 10 metres wide, is one of the most...
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Scotland, UK
At the northern end of the most northerly of the Orkney Islands and 42m (139ft) high this is the tallest land based...
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Isle of Wyre, Orkney, Scotland, UK
This simple 12th century building was once the chapel of a Christian Norse family.
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Scotland, UK
With 60 known shipwrecks around the island this was a place that clearly needed to be avoided. In 1896 a lighthouse was...
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Broad Street, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NX
This magnificent cathedral was dedicated to the Norse Earl, Magnus Erlendsson, murdered in 1116. The cathedral was...
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Stromness, Orkney, KW17
These tall and extraordinarily impressive standing stones were once part of a circle of twelve stones surrounded by deep...
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Rousay, Orkney, Scotland, UK
Protected by a modern structure, this huge tomb, 23 metres in length is divided by upright slabs into twelve compartments....
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Hoy, Orkney, Scotland, UK
This extraordinary tomb has been hollowed out of a solid block of sandstone. Outside the entrance is the original blocking...
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| 1 | Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn (HS) | Finstown, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 2 | Auskerry Lighthouse | Scotland, UK | |
| 3 | Sule Skerry Lighthouse | Scotland, UK | |
| 4 | Maes Howe (HS) | Stenness, Stromness, Orkney, KW16 3HA | |
| 5 | Stromness | Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 6 | Copinsay Lighthouse | Scotland, UK | |
| 7 | Ring of Brodgar (HS) | Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 8 | North Ronaldsay Lighthouse | Scotland, UK | |
| 9 | St Mary's Chapel (HS) | Isle of Wyre, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 10 | Stroma Lighthouse | Scotland, UK | |
| 11 | St Magnus Cathedral | Broad Street, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NX | |
| 12 | Stones of Stenness (HS) | Stromness, Orkney, KW17 | |
| 13 | Midhowe Chambered Cairn (HS) | Rousay, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 14 | St Boniface | Papa Westray, Orkney, KW17 2BU | |
| 15 | Dwarfie Stane Tomb (HS) | Hoy, Orkney, Scotland, UK |
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