Skara Brae Visitor Centre

Skara Brae Visitor Centre is a tourism office in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Skara Brae Visitor Centre is situated nearby to the zoo Skaill Falconry, as well as near Skaill House.

Type: Tourism office
Description: museum in Near Stromness, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
Address: Sandwick, KW16 3LR

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Skara Brae and Skaill House.

Skara Brae

Protected area

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement located along the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney. The site was discovered following a storm exposing the presence of stone structures within the coastal sand dunes. Skara Brae is situated 1,100 feet west of Skara Brae Visitor Centre.

Skaill House

Photo: Wojsyl, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Skaill House is a historic manor house in Sandwick parish on Mainland, the largest of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The house overlooks the Neolithic site, Skara Brae, and the Bay of Skaill. Skaill House is situated 470 feet south of Skara Brae Visitor Centre.

Loch of Skaill

Photo: John Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Loch of Skaill is a small somewhat triangular, freshwater loch in the parish of Sandwick, Orkney on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. It lies 0.5 mi south east of the Bay of Skaill close to Skaill House and the World Heritage neolithic site Skara Brae. Loch of Skaill is situated 3,200 feet southeast of Skara Brae Visitor Centre.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yesnaby and Dounby.

Yesnaby

Locality

Photo: Renata, Public domain.

Yesnaby is a historic township in Sandwick, on the west coast of Orkney Mainland, Scotland, south of Skara Brae. It is renowned for its spectacular Old Red Sandstone coastal cliff scenery which includes sea stacks, blowholes, geos and frequently boiling seas. Yesnaby is situated 2 miles south of Skara Brae Visitor Centre.

Dounby

Village

Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dounby is a village on Mainland in Orkney, in the north of Scotland. Dounby village is situated at the crossroads of what are now the A986 and B9057, and has grown close to the meeting point of the three parishes of Sandwick, Birsay and Harray. Dounby is situated 4 miles east of Skara Brae Visitor Centre.

Twatt

Village

Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Twatt is a settlement in the parish of Birsay on the Mainland of Orkney, Scotland. It was previously the location of RNAS Twatt, from 1940–1949. Twatt is situated at the junction of the A986 and the A967. Twatt is situated 4 miles northeast of Skara Brae Visitor Centre.

Skara Brae Visitor Centre

Categories: museum, information, building, and tourism
Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

59.04891° or 59° 2′ 56″ north

Longitude

-3.3357° or 3° 20′ 9″ west

Wheelchair access

yes

Open location code

9CFR2MX7+HP

OpenStreetMap ID

way 178170729

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=information

Wikidata ID

Q113573066

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Highlights include Skaill Falconry and Castle Snusgar.

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