Volunteers’ battery

Volunteers’ battery is a ruins in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Volunteers’ battery is situated nearby to the shipyard Seatricity Ltd, as well as near the guest house Stenigar, Ness Road, Stromness.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Stromness Museum and Inner Holm.

Stromness Museum

Museum

Photo: Unukorno, CC BY 4.0.

Stromness Museum is a small independent museum in the town of Stromness in Orkney, Scotland focusing on the town's connections to maritime and natural history. Stromness Museum is situated 2,600 feet northwest of Volunteers’ battery.

Inner Holm

Islet

Photo: W. L. Tarbert, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Inner Holm is a small inhabited island in Stromness harbour and one of the Orkney islands of Scotland. It is about 350 metres east of the harbour front of Stromness but it is connected to the Orkney Mainland shore at low tide on the opposite side of the bay.

Outer Holm

Islet

Photo: Sarah Charlesworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Outer Holm is an islet.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stromness and Bu‘ Point.

Stromness

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Stromness is a port on the Mainland of the Orkney Islands, with a population of roughly 2200. To the Vikings, Straumsnes meant the headland just south, where a fierce tide rips between Scapa Flow and the Atlantic; get past that and you came safely into Hamnavoe or "peaceful harbour" where the town now stands.

Bu‘ Point

Locality

Photo: John Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bu‘ Point is a locality.

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. Cairston is situated 2 miles north of Volunteers’ battery.

Volunteers’ battery

Type: Ruins
Category: historic site
Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

58.95138° or 58° 57′ 5″ north

Longitude

-3.29601° or 3° 17′ 46″ west

Open location code

9CCRXP23+HH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 840186815

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=ruins

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Seatricity Ltd and Stenigar, Ness Road, Stromness.

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