Cartshed

Cartshed is a historic building in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Cartshed is situated nearby to the historic building The Laundry House, Melsetter, Hoy, as well as near Spinning Cottage, Melsetter, Hoy.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Melsetter House, Hoy and Longhope Lifeboat Museum.

Melsetter House, Hoy

Historic building

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Melsetter House, Hoy is a historic building.

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 1½ miles east of Cartshed.

Tor Ness Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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Tor Ness Lighthouse is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Cartshed.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brims and Longhope.

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.

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. Longhope is situated 2½ miles northeast of Cartshed.

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 4 miles northeast of Cartshed.

Cartshed

Type: Historic building
Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

58.78563° or 58° 47′ 8″ north

Longitude

-3.2647° or 3° 15′ 53″ west

Open location code

9CCRQPPP+74

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1348214604

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=building

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