Burwick
Burwick is a small harbour on the island of South Ronaldsay in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. It is the closest Orkney harbour to the Scottish mainland and is the terminus of a passenger ferry which operates in the summer to John o' Groats in Caithness.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Dwelling
- Description: settlement in Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Burwick, Orkney”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include South Ronaldsay and St Mary’s Church, South Ronaldsay.
South Ronaldsay
Photo: Nachosan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
South Ronaldsay is the most southerly of the Orkney Islands, with its main settlement at St Margaret's Hope, and a population in 2011 of 909. Burray just north has always been joined by a sandy spit to South Ronaldsay.
Tomison’s Academy, South Ronaldsay
Historic building
Photo: David Loutit, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tomison’s Academy, South Ronaldsay is a historic building, which is situated 1 mile north of Burwick.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brough Ness and Sandwick.
Sandwick
Locality
Photo: John Comloquoy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sandwick is a parish on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland, 4 miles north of Stromness. The parish's name derives from the Old Norse Sandvík meaning "Sand Bay". Sandwick is situated 3 miles north of Burwick.
Herston
Hamlet
Photo: Lis Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Herston is a village on South Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom. Herston is historically a fishing village but its only industry to speak of is Herston Stained Glass, now that Herston Hikers Hostel is now inactive. Herston is situated 5 miles north of Burwick.
Burwick
- Categories: human settlement, locality, residential building, and building
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.74203° or 58° 44′ 31″ northLongitude
-2.97035° or 2° 58′ 13″ westElevation
16 feet (5 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BWCOpen location code
9CCVP2RH+RVOpenStreetMap ID
node 5499516394OpenStreetMap feature
place=isolated_dwellingGeoNames ID
2654191Wikidata ID
Q16985724
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Japanese—“Burwick” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Burwick”
- Dutch: “Burwick”
- Irish: “Burwick, Inse Orc”
- Irish: “Burwick”
- Japanese: “バーウィック”
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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 “Burwick”. Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.