Tankerness Telephone Exchange
Tankerness Telephone Exchange is a building in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Tankerness Telephone Exchange is situated nearby to the garden Sandesquoy, as well as near the archaeological site Mine Howe (Iron Age settlement.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kirkwall Airport and Loch of Tankerness.
Kirkwall Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Ken Walton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirkwall Airport is the main airport serving Orkney in Scotland. It is located 2.5 NM southeast of Kirkwall and is owned by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited. The airport is used by Loganair. Kirkwall Airport is situated 2½ miles northwest of Tankerness Telephone Exchange.
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 Tankerness Telephone Exchange.
Braebuster
House
Photo: Mark Crook, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Braebuster is a house, which is situated 2 miles east of Tankerness Telephone Exchange.
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 Tankerness Telephone Exchange.
Tankerness Telephone Exchange
- Type: Building
- Address: Tankerness, KW17 2QT
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.94372° or 58° 56′ 37″ northLongitude
-2.84166° or 2° 50′ 30″ westLevels
1Operator
OpenreachOpen location code
9CCVW5V5+F8OpenStreetMap ID
way 679138281OpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sandesquoy and Mine Howe (Iron Age settlement.
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