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Buckle's Tower is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 59.0024°, -3.1376°.

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Buckle's Tower

Buckle's Tower in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom.

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Buckle's Tower is a place of interest in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Buckle's Tower (locally Buckle's Too'er) is a historic stone-built tower upon the Hill of Heddle in Firth, Orkney. The tower was originally built sometime during the 1870s by a local shepherd boy named William Buckle who watched the sheep on the Hill of Heddle.

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William Buckle was a boy who lived in the village of Finstown, Orkney during the late 19th century, and around the age of 13 he was employed by the local farmer at Binscarth to watch over livestock on the Hill of Heddle. Watching livestock graze proved to be a tedious occupation for Buckle, and in his spare time he began constructing a stone tower, using drystone from the nearby quarry. Buckle left some stones jutting out of the tower to act as steps he used to climb the tower as it got taller, eventually breaking them off after nearly falling from them. Buckle's Tower in later years was used as a sightline by sailors coming into the Bay of Firth. Nearby, stands Wilson's Tower; a smaller,…

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