Finstown

Finstown is a village in the parish of Firth on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It is the fourth-largest settlement in the Orkney Islands. According to travel author Eric Linklater, the homes in Finstown are tidy and well cared for.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn and Finstown Mill.

Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn

Archaeological site

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Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn is a Neolithic chambered cairn on Mainland, the main island of Orkney, Scotland, about 6 miles west of Kirkwall. It dates to around 3000 BC, and is similar in design to Maeshowe, but on a smaller scale.

Finstown Mill

Watermill

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Finstown Mill is a watermill.

Holm of Grimbister

Islet

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Holm of Grimbister is an inhabited tidal islet in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. Located in the Bay of Firth near Finstown it is connected to Mainland Orkney by a causeway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Firth and Harray.

Firth

Locality

Firth is a civil parish mainly on Mainland, Orkney. The islands of Damsay and Holm of Grimbister, which lie in the Bay of Firth, are also in the parish.

Harray

Village

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Harray is an Orcadian parish and village on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom. The village is near the Loch of Harray and was used by the Vikings for waterway transportation and Old Norse was spoken in the area up until the 1700s. Harray is situated 3½ miles northwest of Finstown.

Stenness

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Stenness is a small, scattered village in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, on the A965 main road between Kirkwall and Stromness. It has several UNESCO World Heritage Listed neolithic sights: the Stones, Maeshowe and Ring of Brodgar, with Skara Brae a few miles further north.

Finstown

Type: Village with 511 residents
Description: village in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
Category: locality
Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

59.00666° or 59° 0′ 24″ north

Longitude

-3.11541° or 3° 6′ 56″ west

Population

511

Elevation

30 feet (9 metres)

Open location code

9CFR2V4M+MR

OpenStreetMap ID

node 615929271

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

2649399

Wikidata ID

Q1418411

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Finstown” goes by many names.

Basque: “Finstown”
Danish: “Finstown”
Dutch: “Finstown”
French: “Finstown”
German: “Finstown”
Italian: “Finstown”
Spanish: “Finstown”
Swedish: “Finstown”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Firth Church and Firth Park.

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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 “Finstown”. Photo: Mark Crook, CC BY-SA 2.0.