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Wyre

Wyre is one of the , lying south-east of . It is 311 hectares and 32 metres at its highest point. It is one of the smallest inhabited islands in the archipelago.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island of the Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Veira”, “Veira, Orkney”, “Viera”, “Viera, Orkney”, and “Wyre, Orkney”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cobbie Row’s Castle and St. Mary’s Chapel, Wyre.

Castle
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cobbie Row's Castle is the oldest medieval castle known to exist in Scotland. The castle ruins are located on the island of Wyre in Orkney. Built in the mid-12 century by Norse landowner, Kolbeinn hrúga, the stone fortification originally consisted of a small, central tower set in an oval enclosure, surrounded by two ditches, a stone wall and an earthen rampart.

Ruins
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St. Mary's Chapel is a ruined 12th-century chapel found on the island of Wyre, in , . It is thought to have been built by a Norse chieftain, Kolbeinn hrúga or his son, Bjarni Kolbeinsson, Bishop of Orkney.

Archaeological site
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is a Neolithic burial cairn on , , Scotland, thought to date from between 4000 and 2500 BCE. The monument includes a rare example of a double-tiered chamber, an upper chamber approached via a passageway and a lower subterranean chamber, originally separate, which can now be reached via a modern ladder from the upper chamber.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tingwall and Evie.

Village
is a farm and ferry terminal that lies on the north-east coast of 's West Mainland on the Gairsay Sound in the parish of Evie and Rendall.

Village
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is a parish and village on , . The parish is located in the north-west of the Mainland, between and , forming the coastline opposite the isle of .

Village
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is a parish on , Scotland. It is in the north west of the island and lies east of the parishes of and and north east of . The island of is also in the parish. is situated 5 miles southwest of Wyre.

Wyre

Latitude
59.11939° or 59° 7′ 10″ north
Longitude
-2.98118° or 2° 58′ 52″ west
Population
29
Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB WYR
Open location code
9CFV4299+QG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 4569287
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
2633442
Wiki­data ID
Q537285
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Wyre” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Wyre”
  • Basque: “Wyre (Orkadak)”
  • Basque: “Wyre”
  • Cebuano: “Wyre”
  • Chinese: “懷爾島”
  • Dutch: “Wyre”
  • French: “Wyre”
  • German: “Wyre”
  • Greek: “Γουάιαρ”
  • Italian: “Wyre”
  • Japanese: “ワイヤ島”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wyre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wyre i Orknøyane”
  • Norwegian: “Wyre”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wyr, Orcanege”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wyr”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Wyre, Arcaibh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Wyre”
  • Spanish: “Wyre”
  • Swedish: “Wyre, Skottland”
  • Swedish: “Wyre”
  • Welsh: “Wyre”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wyre”. Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.