Tor Ness Lighthouse
Tor Ness Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Tor Ness Lighthouse is situated nearby to the peak Melsetter Hill, as well as near the locality Brims.Photo: Calum McRoberts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Tor Ness”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Melsetter House, Hoy and Longhope Lifeboat Museum.
Melsetter House, Hoy
Historic building
Photo: Wolfgang Schlick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Melsetter House, Hoy is a historic building, which is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Tor Ness Lighthouse.
Longhope Lifeboat Museum
Museum
Photo: Calum McRoberts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Longhope Lifeboat Museum is a museum at Brims on the island of Hoy in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The museum's main exhibit is the former lifeboat Thomas McCunn, the lifeboat that served the islands of Hoy and South Walls between 1933 and 1962. Longhope Lifeboat Museum is situated 2½ miles east of Tor Ness Lighthouse.
Hoglinns Water
Photo: Roger McLachlan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hoglinns Water is a small freshwater loch in the south of the island of Hoy, Orkney. It drains in to Heldale Water via Hoglinns Burn. The loch was surveyed in 1906 by Sir John Murray and later charted as part of the Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909. Hoglinns Water is situated 1½ miles north of Tor Ness Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brims and Longhope.
Brims
Locality
Photo: Calum McRoberts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brims is a village at the southern point of the island of Hoy, in Orkney, Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Walls and Flotta. The RNLI lifeboat Thomas McCunn is on display at the Longhope Lifeboat Museum in Brims, which was the Longhope Lifeboat Station until 1999. Brims is situated 2½ miles east of Tor Ness Lighthouse.
Longhope
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Longhope is a coastal settlement on the island of South Walls, in Orkney, Scotland. South Walls is linked to Hoy by causeway; Longhope is the largest settlement on the two islands. The settlement is situated on the B9047, the main road on Hoy and South Walls. Longhope is situated 3½ miles northeast of Tor Ness Lighthouse.
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. Lyness is situated 5 miles northeast of Tor Ness Lighthouse.
Tor Ness Lighthouse
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.77829° or 58° 46′ 42″ northLongitude
-3.29636° or 3° 17′ 47″ westOpen location code
9CCRQPH3+8FOpenStreetMap ID
node 1329027210OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouseWikidata ID
Q28858425
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In Other Languages
“Tor Ness Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- French: “phare de Tor Ness”
- French: “Phare de Tor Ness”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Melsetter Hill and Steading, Melsetter Farm, Hoy.
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