Ness Battery, Stromness

Ness Battery, Stromness is in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Ness Battery, Stromness is situated nearby to the ruins Hoy Number 3 Battery, as well as near Hoy Number 3 Magazine.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Stromness Museum and Hoy Sound Low Light.

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. Stromness Museum is situated 3,000 feet northeast of Ness Battery, Stromness.

Hoy Sound Low Light

Lighthouse

Photo: Fabio Sassi, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Graemsay is an island in the western approaches to Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The island has two lighthouses. Graemsay lies within the parish of Stromness. Hoy Sound Low Light is situated 3,700 feet south of Ness Battery, Stromness.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stromness and Bu‘ Point.

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.

Bu‘ Point

Locality

Photo: John Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bu‘ Point is a locality, which is situated 2 miles northeast of Ness Battery, Stromness.

Cairston

Locality

Photo: Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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 northeast of Ness Battery, Stromness.

Ness Battery, Stromness

Type: Sign
Categories: information and tourism
Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

58.95036° or 58° 57′ 1″ north

Longitude

-3.30793° or 3° 18′ 29″ west

Open location code

9CCRXM2R+4R

OpenStreetMap ID

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OpenStreetMap feature

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Highlights include Hoy Number 3 Battery and Hoy Number 3 Magazine.

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