Mill of Ayreland — The Mill of Ayreland is an historic watermill driven by water force of the Burn of Ayreland, a northwesterly flowing coastal stream within Mainland Orkney, Scotland that empties into the Clestrain Sound approximately five kilometres southerly of… … Wikipedia
Burn of Ayreland — The Burn of Ayreland is a northwesterly flowing coastal stream on Mainland Orkney, Scotland that discharges to the Clestrain Sound about two miles south of Stenness. [United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 45, Orkney Mainland, 1:50,000… … Wikipedia
Stines Moss — [United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 45, Orkney Mainland, 1:50,000 scale, 2003] Prehistory and historyThis moss is located a few miles south of very significant Neolithic and Iron Age archaeological sites. A few miles to the north are… … Wikipedia
Clestrain Sound — is a strait between Mainland Orkney and the Isle of Graemsay within the Orkney Islands, Scotland.[1] Clestrain Sound lies in the western entrance to Scapa Flow. Like other seaways within the Orkney Islands, Clestrain Sound has been recognized for … Wikipedia
Standing Stones of Stenness — The surviving Standing Stones of Stenness form an impressive Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. It is sited on a promontory at the south bank of the stream that joins the southern ends of the sea loch Loch of Stenness and the … Wikipedia
Creek (tidal) — For other uses, see Creek (disambiguation). A tidal creek, tidal channel, or estuary is the portion of a stream that is affected by ebb and flow of ocean tides, in the case that the subject stream discharges to an ocean, sea or strait. Thus this… … Wikipedia
List of rivers of Scotland — List of rivers in Scotland is a list of rivers in Scotland, organised geographically, taken anti clockwise, from Berwick upon Tweed. Tributaries are listed down the page in an upstream direction.For simplicity, they are divided here by the nation … Wikipedia
Waulkmill Bay — is a tidal bay on the southwest of Mainland Orkney, Scotland. [United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 45, Orkney Mainland, 1:50,000 scale, 2003] This bay and its immediately surrounding area have been identified as a Site of Special… … Wikipedia
Stenness — in Shetland Stenness (Old Norse: Steinnes Pedersen, Roy (January 1992) Orkneyjar ok Katanes (map, Inverness, Nevis Print)] or Steinsnes [Anderson, Joseph (Ed.) (1893) Orkneyinga Saga . Translated by Jón A. Hjaltalin Gilbert Goudie. Edinburgh.… … Wikipedia