Westray
Westray is one of the Orkney Islands of Scotland, with a population in 2011 of 588. The main settlement is Pierowall in the north of the island, but the ferry from Kirkwall lands at Rapness near its south end.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Westside Church and Lady Kirk.
Westside Church
Church
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Westside Church, is a ruined 12th century church located on the island of Westray in Orkney, Scotland. Archaeological excavations at the site suggest that the church is related to a nearby late Norse settlement.
Lady Kirk
Church
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The Lady Kirk at Pierowall is a ruined 17th-century church on the island of Westray, in Orkney, Scotland. The church was built in 1674, on the foundations of the 13th-century church.
Links of Noltland
Archaeological site
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Links of Noltland was a large prehistoric settlement located on the north coast of the island of Westray in Orkney, Scotland. The extensive ruins includes several late Neolithic and early Bronze Age dwellings and is place of discovery of the Westray Wife figurine, uncovered during an excavation in 2009.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pierowall.
Pierowall
Village
Photo: David Wyatt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pierowall is a village of Westray in the Orkney Islands, off the coast of the northern Scottish mainland. The village is the island's largest settlement and lies near its northern end, around Pierowall Bay.
Westray
- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
- Category: landform
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Westray” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Westray”
- Cebuano: “Westray”
- Chinese: “韋斯特雷島”
- Chinese: “韦斯特雷岛”
- Czech: “ostrov v Orknejském souostroví”
- Czech: “Westray”
- Danish: “Westray”
- Dutch: “Westray”
- French: “Westray”
- German: “Westray”
- Greek: “Γουέστρι”
- Hebrew: “ווסטרי”
- Indonesian: “Westray”
- Italian: “Westray”
- Japanese: “ウェストレー島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Westray”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Westray”
- Norwegian: “Westray”
- Polish: “Westray”
- Russian: “Уэстрей”
- Scots: “Westray”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bheastraigh”
- Spanish: “Westray”
- Swedish: “Westray”
- Welsh: “Westray”
- Western Panjabi: “ویسٹرے”
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