Finstown, a village in Firth and Stenness parish, Orkney, at the head of Firth Bay, 6 miles WNW of Kirkwall. It has a post office, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments; horse and cattle fairs on the third Monday of every month; and a recently erected pier, 500 feet long, where an extensive trade is carried on in coal, lime, manures, grain, etc. Pop. (1881) 160.
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