Outertown

Outertown is a locality in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Outertown is situated nearby to the locality Kewan, as well as near Innertown.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Breckness House and Stromness Museum.

Breckness House

Ruins

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Breckness House, sometimes known as Breckness Castle, is the site of the 17th-century mansion, chapel and burial ground, built by George Graham, the Bishop of Orkney.

Stromness Museum

Museum

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Stromness Museum is a small independent museum in the town of Stromness in Orkney, Scotland focusing on the town's connections to maritime and natural history.

Inner Holm

Islet

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Inner Holm is a small inhabited island in Stromness harbour and one of the Orkney islands of Scotland. It is about 350 metres east of the harbour front of Stromness but it is connected to the Orkney Mainland shore at low tide on the opposite side of the bay. Inner Holm is situated 2 miles southeast of Outertown.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stromness and Cairston.

Stromness

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Stromness is a port on the Mainland of the Orkney Islands, with a population of roughly 2200. To the Vikings, Straumsnes meant the headland just south, where a fierce tide rips between Scapa Flow and the Atlantic; get past that and you came safely into Hamnavoe or "peaceful harbour" where the town now stands.

Cairston

Locality

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Cairston is a village on Mainland, in Orkney, Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Stromness. Within the village is located the Castle of Cairston which is said to have belonged to the House of Gordons, and may have been built in 1152, as contested in a Saga. Cairston is situated 2½ miles east of Outertown.