Dyke End
Dyke End is a bay in United Kingdom.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eday and Muckle Green Holm.
Eday
Photo: Beep boop beep, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Eday is one of the Orkney Islands of Scotland. It's about 15 miles north of the Orkney Mainland, 8 miles long by a mile wide but pinched in the middle: in Old Norse Eiðøy means "isthmus island".
Muckle Green Holm
Islet
Photo: Andy Farrington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Muckle Green Holm is an uninhabited island in the North Isles of the Orkney archipelago in Scotland. It is roughly 28 hectares in extent and rises to 28 metres above sea level, the summit having a triangulation pillar.
Eday Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Lis Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eday London Airport is located on Eday in Orkney, Scotland. As it is close to the Bay of London it is known locally as just London Airport. The Bay of London may have been so called because of puffins breeding there: Old Norse lundi = "puffin", Old Norse á Lundunum = "at the puffins".
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Backaland and Quholm.
Backaland
Hamlet
Photo: Des Colhoun, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Backaland is a settlement on the island of Eday in Orkney, Scotland. The settlement is also within the parish of Eday, and it is located to the south west of the island. Backaland is situated at the southern end of the B9063.
Quholm
Hamlet
Photo: C Michael Hogan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Quholm is a farm in the northeast of Shapinsay, in the islands of Orkney, Scotland.
Dyke End
- Type: Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.1461° or 59° 8′ 46″ northLongitude
-2.7915° or 2° 47′ 30″ westOpen location code
9CFV46W5+C9OpenStreetMap ID
node 8746073087OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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