Cairston
Cairston is a village on Mainland, in Orkney, Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Stromness.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ring of Brodgar and Unstan Chambered Cairn.
Ring of Brodgar
Heath
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ring of Brodgar is a Neolithic henge and stone circle about 6 miles north-east of Stromness on Mainland, the largest island in Orkney, Scotland. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. Ring of Brodgar is situated 2 miles northeast of Cairston.
Unstan Chambered Cairn
Photo: Bruce McAdam, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Unstan is a Neolithic chambered cairn located about 2 mi north-east of Stromness on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. The tomb was built on a promontory that extends into the Loch of Stenness near the settlement of Howe.
Inner Holm
Islet
Photo: W. L. Tarbert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 1½ miles south of Cairston.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bu‘ Point and Stromness.
Stromness
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.
Stenness
Photo: Nachosan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Cairston
- Type: Locality
- Description: village in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
- Category: village
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.98186° or 58° 58′ 55″ northLongitude
-3.27769° or 3° 16′ 40″ westElevation
154 feet (47 metres)Open location code
9CCRXPJC+PWOpenStreetMap ID
node 9388827049OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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In Other Languages
From Basque to French—“Cairston” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cairston”
- Dutch: “Cairston”
- French: “Cairston”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Deepdale standing stone (Prehistoric) and Pillbox (C20).
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