Svala Brae
Svala Brae is a house in Orkney Islands, Scotland which is located on Newark Road. Svala Brae is situated nearby to old quarry, as well as near the grassland Slap of Toab.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 3 miles southeast of Kirkwall and is owned by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited. The airport is used by Loganair.
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 2 miles northeast of Svala Brae.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Andrews and Tankerness.
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.
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.
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 south of Svala Brae.
Svala Brae
- Type: House
- Address: Newark Road, St Andrews, KW17 2QP
- Categories: building and residential building
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.94754° or 58° 56′ 51″ northLongitude
-2.87564° or 2° 52′ 32″ westOpen location code
9CCVW4XF+2POpenStreetMap ID
way 746121890OpenStreetMap feature
building=house
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