Muirs
Muirs is a building in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Muirs is situated nearby to the church Saint John, as well as near Longhope Post Office.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Longhope Lifeboat Museum and Melsetter House, Hoy.
Longhope Lifeboat Museum
Museum
Photo: Calum McRoberts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 1½ miles south of Muirs.
Melsetter House, Hoy
Historic building
Photo: Wolfgang Schlick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Melsetter House, Hoy is a historic building, which is situated 2 miles southwest of Muirs.
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 2½ miles northeast of Muirs.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Longhope and Brims.
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.
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 Muirs.
Lyness
Village
Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 Muirs.
Muirs
- Type: Agricultural structure
- Categories: building and agriculture
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.80373° or 58° 48′ 13″ northLongitude
-3.22284° or 3° 13′ 22″ westOpen location code
9CCRRQ3G+FVOpenStreetMap ID
way 118151644OpenStreetMap feature
building=farm_auxiliary
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