Visitor Centre Car Park
Visitor Centre Car Park is a parking area in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Visitor Centre Car Park is situated nearby to Maeshowe Visitor Centre, as well as near Stenness Post Office.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Standing Stones of Stenness and Maeshowe.
Standing Stones of Stenness
Archaeological site
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The Standing Stones of Stenness are a Neolithic monument five miles northeast of Stromness on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. This may be the oldest henge site in the British Isles. Standing Stones of Stenness is situated 2,700 feet north of Visitor Centre Car Park.
Maeshowe
Protected area
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Maeshowe is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. It was probably built around 2800 BC. In the archaeology of Scotland, it gives its name to the Maeshowe type of chambered cairn, which is limited to Orkney. Maeshowe is situated 1 mile northeast of Visitor Centre Car Park.
Barnhouse Settlement
Grassland
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Neolithic Barnhouse Settlement is sited by the shore of Loch of Harray, Orkney Mainland, Scotland, not far from the Standing Stones of Stenness, about 5 miles north-east of Stromness. Barnhouse Settlement is situated 3,300 feet north of Visitor Centre Car Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stenness and Cairston.
Stenness
Photo: Nachosan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stenness is a small, scattered village in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, on the A965 main road between Kirkwall and Stromness. It has several UNESCO World Heritage Listed neolithic sights: the Stones, Maeshowe and Ring of Brodgar, with Skara Brae a few miles further north.
Cairston
Locality
Photo: Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cairston is a village on Mainland, in Orkney, Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Stromness. Within the village is located the Castle of Cairston which is said to have belonged to the House of Gordons, and may have been built in 1152, as contested in a Saga. Cairston is situated 2½ miles west of Visitor Centre Car Park.
Bu‘ Point
Locality
Photo: John Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bu‘ Point is a locality, which is situated 2½ miles southwest of Visitor Centre Car Park.
Visitor Centre Car Park
- Type: Parking area
- Parking: surface
- Category: transportation
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.98668° or 58° 59′ 12″ northLongitude
-3.20879° or 3° 12′ 32″ westOpen location code
9CCRXQPR+MFOpenStreetMap ID
way 521608559OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=parkingOpenStreetMap attribute
parking=surface
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