Saint John
Saint John is a church in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Saint John is situated nearby to Longhope Post Office, as well as near Longhope Pier.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Longhope Lifeboat Museum and Scapa Flow Museum.
Longhope Lifeboat Museum
Museum
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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 2 miles south of Saint John.
Scapa Flow Museum
Museum
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Scapa Flow Museum is a war museum in Lyness on the Island of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland. Housed within a refurbished Romney hut and oil fuel pump house at the former Lyness royal naval base HMS Proserpine, the museum charts the history of Orkney's involvement in World War I and World War II. Scapa Flow Museum is situated 2 miles north of Saint John.
Crockness Martello tower
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Crockness Martello Tower is a Martello Tower on Hoy, Orkney, Scotland. It was built during the Napoleonic Wars, at the same time as the Martello Tower at Hackness. Crockness Martello tower is situated 2 miles northeast of Saint John.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Longhope and Lyness.
Longhope
Village
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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.
Lyness
Village
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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 2 miles north of Saint John.
Brims
Locality
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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 2 miles south of Saint John.
Saint John
- Type: Church
- Categories: building and religion
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.80587° or 58° 48′ 21″ northLongitude
-3.21732° or 3° 13′ 2″ westOpen location code
9CCRRQ4M+83OpenStreetMap ID
way 118107635OpenStreetMap feature
building=church
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