Horizontal Mill
Horizontal Mill is a building in Shetland Islands, Scotland. Horizontal Mill is situated nearby to the hamlet Huxter, as well as near the peak Ramna Vord.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Loch of Huxter, broch and Loch of Huxter.
Loch of Huxter, broch
Archaeological site
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch of Huxter, broch is an archaeological site, which is situated 690 feet south of Horizontal Mill.
Loch of Huxter
Photo: Julian Paren, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch of Huxter is situated 960 feet south of Horizontal Mill.
Papa Stour Island
Island
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Papa Stour is one of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, with a population of fifteen people, some of whom immigrated after an appeal for residents in the 1970s. Papa Stour Island is situated 2½ miles north of Horizontal Mill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Huxter and Sandness.
Sandness
Hamlet
Photo: Cwcoutts, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandness is a headland and district in the west of Shetland Mainland, Scotland. Sandness was a civil parish, which also included the island of Papa Stour a mile northwest across Papa Sound.
Biggings
Hamlet
Photo: Mark Stockdale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Biggings is a village on the island of Papa Stour, in Shetland, Scotland. Papa Stour's church is situated at the south of Biggings. A homestead of Duke Haakon of Norway is thought to have been at Biggings, and archaeological digs have discovered the remains of a substantial Norse house, dating to around the 12th or 13th century. Biggings is situated 2 miles north of Horizontal Mill.
Horizontal Mill
- Type: Building
- Category: historic site
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
60.29828° or 60° 17′ 54″ northLongitude
-1.6895° or 1° 41′ 22″ westOpen location code
9CGW78X6+85OpenStreetMap ID
way 170372231OpenStreetMap feature
building=watermillOpenStreetMap feature
historic=horizontal_water_mill
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