Skeetquoy
Skeetquoy is a house in Orkney Islands, Scotland which is located on Tankerness Hall Road. Skeetquoy is situated nearby to the aerodrome Kirkwall Airport, as well as near the archaeological site Crowe Howe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kirkwall Airport and Mine Howe.
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.
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 1½ miles southeast of Skeetquoy.
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 northeast of Skeetquoy.
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
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Head of Holland
Locality
Photo: Adam Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Head of Holland is a locality, which is situated 2½ miles north of Skeetquoy.
Skeetquoy
- Type: House
- Address: Tankerness Hall Road, Tankerness, KW17 2QR
- Categories: building and residential building
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.95516° or 58° 57′ 19″ northLongitude
-2.88351° or 2° 53′ 1″ westOpen location code
9CCVX448+3HOpenStreetMap ID
way 890980575OpenStreetMap feature
building=house
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