Blockworks Yard

Blockworks Yard is in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Blockworks Yard is situated nearby to the military installation Pillbox C20, as well as near the locality Cairston.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ring of Brodgar and Unstan Chambered Cairn.

Ring of Brodgar

Heath

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The Ring of Brodgar is a Neolithic henge and stone circle about 6 miles north-east of Stromness on Mainland, the largest island in Orkney, Scotland. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. Ring of Brodgar is situated 2 miles east of Blockworks Yard.

Unstan Chambered Cairn

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Unstan is a Neolithic chambered cairn located about 2 mi north-east of Stromness on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. The tomb was built on a promontory that extends into the Loch of Stenness near the settlement of Howe. Unstan Chambered Cairn is situated 1½ miles east of Blockworks Yard.

Inner Holm

Islet

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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. Inner Holm is situated 2 miles south of Blockworks Yard.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cairston and Stromness.

Cairston

Locality

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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.

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.