Orkney Mainland

(Pomona, Hrossey, Mainland)

Classification and Statistics Type: Island Population: 17162 Area: 58308 ha (144077 acres) Tourist Rating: No Text of Entry Updated: 26-MAR-2017

Location Latitude: 58.9807°N Longitude: 3.0837°W National Grid Reference: HY 378 109 A range of modern and historical maps are accessible through the map tab on the right of this page Get directions by entering the UK postcode of your location, home or hotel here eg. EH1 3YT

References and Further Reading

Burgher, Leslie (1991) Orkney: An Illustrated Architectural Guide. The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, Edinburgh
Tait, Charles (1999) The Orkney Guide Book. Charles Tait Photographic, Orkney

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Attractions:	Betty's Reading Room Broch of Borwick Broch of Gurness Brough of Birsay Churchill Barrier No 1 Churchill Barriers Corrigall Farm Museum Cuween Chambered Cairn Earl's Bu Earl's Palace, The Hamnavoe	Highland Park Distillery Hoy & West Mainland National Scenic Area Kirbuster Farm Museum Kitchener Memorial Maes Howe Ring of Brodgar, The Skara Brae St Magnus' Cathedral St Peter's Church Warebeth Wideford Hill
Council Area:	Orkney
Events:	Battleship Royal Oak sunk in Scapa Flow	German fleet scuttled at Scapa Flow
Features:	Aiker Ness Auskerry Lighthouse Ayre, Point of Backaland, Bay of Backaquoy, Point of Berstane, Bay of Berstane, Taing of Black Holm Boardhouse, Burn of Boardhouse, Loch of Boray, Holm of Breck Ness Bridge of Brodgar Bring Deeps Brodgar, Ness of Brough of Birsay Lighthouse Bu Point Burgar Hill Burgar Hill Wind Farm Burray Bush, The Carness, Bay of Clestrain Sound Clestrain, Skerries of Clumly, Loch of Copinsay Cringla Fiold Cuween Hill Deerness Eynhallow Faray, Holm of Firth, Bay of Gairsay Gairsay Sound Gairsay, Hen of Gaitnip Hill Garthna Geo Glimps Holm Graemsay Grimbister, Holm of Harray, Loch of Holland, Head of Horse of Copinsay Houton, Holm of Hoy Hundland, Loch of Inga Ness Inganess Bay Inner Holm Ireland, Bay of Isbister, Bay of Kaellan Helliar Keelylang Hill Kirkwall Power Station Kirkwall, Bay of Lamb Holm Lash, The Lavey Sound	Lyre Geo Marwick Head Meil, Bay of Miffia, Hill of Mill Dam of Rango Milldoe Mirkady Point Mousland, Bight of Muckle Green Holm Mull Head Mull Head Myre, Bay of Navershaw, Bay of Neban Point Newark Bay North Hill Od, Point of Outer Holm Outshore Point Quanter Ness Quanterness Skerry Sandoyne, Bay of Scapa Bay Scapa Flow Shapinsay Shapinsay Sound Skaill House Skaill, Bay of Skea South Ronaldsay St Nicholas's Church St Peter's Pool Stenness, Loch of String, The Stromness Academy Sule Skerry Swanbister Bay Swannay, Loch of Sweyn Holm Tankerness, Loch of Thieves Holm Tor Ness Toy Ness Vastray, Point of Ve Ness Warbeth Cemetery Ward Hill Ward, The Wasdale, Loch of Waulkmill Bay Weyland, Bay of Wide Firth Wideford Reservoir Wood Wick Work, Bay of Yinstay Head Yinstay, Skerry of
Historical Counties:	Orkney
Parishes:	Birsay and Harray Evie and Rendall Firth Holm	Kirkwall and St Ola Orphir Sandwick Stenness
People:	Samuel Bough George Mackay Brown	George Buchanan Sir Robert Strange
Settlements:	Birsay Breckquoy Clestrain Copinsay Pass Cursiter Dounby Finstown Gorseness Grimbister Harray Hatston Houton	Kirkwall Nether Button Orphir Quoyloo Redland Scapa Skeabrae St Mary's Stromness Tingwall Twatt

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