Back Burn
Back Burn is a stream in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Back Burn is situated nearby to the locality Peat Point, as well as near Braid Point.Places of Interest
Highlights include Fara and Scapa Flow Museum.
Fara
Island
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Fara is a small island in Orkney, Scotland, lying in Scapa Flow between the islands of Flotta and Hoy. It has been uninhabited since the 1960s. The island’s name is used as a house name at Stromness Primary School, the other houses being Cava, Rysa, and Switha…
Scapa Flow Museum
Museum
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Scapa Flow Museum is a war museum in Lyness on the Island of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland. Housed within a refurbished Romney hut and oil fuel pump house at the former Lyness royal naval base HMS Proserpine, the museum charts the history of Orkney's involvement in World War I and World War II.
Crockness Martello tower
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Crockness Martello Tower is a Martello Tower on Hoy, Orkney, Scotland. It was built during the Napoleonic Wars, at the same time as the Martello Tower at Hackness.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lyness and Point of Hackness.
Lyness
Village
Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lyness is a village on the east coast of the island of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland. The village is within the parish of Walls and Flotta, and is situated at the junction of the B9047 and B9048.
Point of Hackness
Locality
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Point of Hackness is a locality, which is situated 2½ miles south of Back Burn.
Whome
Village
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Whome is the largest settlement on the Orkney island of Flotta, Scotland. The village is situated on the B9046, the main road across Flotta. Views from Whome look across Pan Hope, to the Flotta oil terminal across the bay. Whome is situated 2½ miles east of Back Burn.
Back Burn
- Type: Stream
- Category: body of water
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.84126° or 58° 50′ 29″ northLongitude
-3.17497° or 3° 10′ 30″ westElevation
20 feet (6 metres)Open location code
9CCRRRRG+G2GeoNames ID
12088987
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