Skibbowick Hill
Skibbowick Hill is a locality in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Skibbowick Hill is situated nearby to the locality Sand of Heatherhouse, as well as near Taing of Rumbles.Places of Interest
Highlights include Loch of Tankerness.
Loch of Tankerness
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Loch of Tankerness is a large, lowland, freshwater loch on the Orkney mainland in Scotland. The loch is roughly triangular in shape and is shallow with a flat bottom that gradually deepens from west to east. It lies approximately 4 mi southeast of Kirkwall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rerwick Head and Tankerness.
Tankerness
Village
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Tankerness is a district in the St Andrews parish in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. Essentially a peninsula, it is about 13 kilometres south-east of Kirkwall and 1 kilometre east of Kirkwall Airport. Tankerness is situated 2 miles southwest of Skibbowick Hill.
St Andrews
Locality
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St Andrews is a parish on Mainland, Orkney in Scotland. It is located east of the town of Kirkwall and the parish of St Ola and lies north of Holm and west of Deerness. St Andrews is situated 2½ miles southwest of Skibbowick Hill.
Skibbowick Hill
- Type: Locality
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.97634° or 58° 58′ 35″ northLongitude
-2.8141° or 2° 48′ 51″ westOpen location code
9CCVX5GP+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 6577724499OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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