Slap of Toab

Slap of Toab is a grassland in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Slap of Toab is situated nearby to old quarry, as well as near the locality St Andrews.

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 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 Slap of Toab.

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 Slap of Toab.

Slap of Toab

Type: Grassland
Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

58.94622° or 58° 56′ 46″ north

Longitude

-2.86613° or 2° 51′ 58″ west

Open location code

9CCVW4WM+FG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 892410091

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=grass

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Highlights include old quarry and Sandesquoy.

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