Gritquoy Ayre

Gritquoy Ayre is a locality in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Gritquoy Ayre is situated nearby to the locality Skerries of Lakeqooy, as well as near Toab Skerry.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kirkwall Airport and Loch of Tankerness.

Kirkwall Airport

Aerodrome

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Kirkwall Airport is the main airport serving Orkney in Scotland. It is located 2.5 NM southeast of Kirkwall and is owned by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited. The airport is used by Loganair. Kirkwall Airport is situated 2 miles west of Gritquoy Ayre.

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.

Mine Howe

Archaeological site

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Mine Howe is an Iron Age subterranean man-made chamber dug 6 meters deep inside a large mound. It is located in the Tankerness area of Orkney, Scotland, about 5 miles southeast of Kirkwall, the capital of Orkney.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tankerness and St Andrews.

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.

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.