Muckle Twinness
Muckle Twinness is a building in Orkney Islands, Scotland which is located on Liddie Road. Muckle Twinness is situated nearby to the village Tankerness, as well as near the locality St Andrews.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mine Howe and Sebay Mill.
Mine Howe
Archaeological site
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mine Howe is an Iron Age subterranean man-made chamber dug 6 meters deep inside a large mound. It is located in the Tankerness area of Orkney, Scotland, about 5 miles southeast of Kirkwall, the capital of Orkney. Mine Howe is situated 1 mile southwest of Muckle Twinness.
Sebay Mill
House
Photo: David Wyatt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sebay Mill is a house, which is situated 1¼ miles south of Muckle Twinness.
Loch of Tankerness
Photo: Adam Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch of Tankerness is a large, lowland, freshwater loch on the Orkney mainland in Scotland. The loch is roughly triangular in shape and is shallow with a flat bottom that gradually deepens from west to east. It lies approximately 4 mi southeast of Kirkwall. Loch of Tankerness is situated 1½ miles north of Muckle Twinness.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tankerness and St Andrews.
Tankerness
Village
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Tankerness is a district in the St Andrews parish in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. Essentially a peninsula, it is about 13 kilometres south-east of Kirkwall and 1 kilometre east of Kirkwall Airport.
St Andrews
Locality
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St Andrews is a parish on Mainland, Orkney in Scotland. It is located east of the town of Kirkwall and the parish of St Ola and lies north of Holm and west of Deerness.
Holm
Locality
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Holm, also spelled Ham, is a parish on Mainland, Orkney. An adjacent Sound, running between Mainland, and Burray, is named after Holm. It has since been blocked up by the Churchill Barriers. Holm is situated 3 miles southwest of Muckle Twinness.
Muckle Twinness
- Type: Building
- Address: Liddie Road, Tankerness, KW17 2QT
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.94405° or 58° 56′ 39″ northLongitude
-2.83141° or 2° 49′ 53″ westOpen location code
9CCVW5V9+JCOpenStreetMap ID
way 679138271OpenStreetMap feature
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