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Tankerness
Tankerness in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Tankerness 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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From the Wikipedia article
Tankerness is a district in the St Andrews parish in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. Essentially a peninsula, it is about 13 kilometres (8 mi) south-east of Kirkwall and 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) east of Kirkwall Airport. The origin of the place name is uncertain, but it may derive from the Norse personal name "Tannskári". A "ness" is a promontory.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
searchlight housing at Rerwick Head]] The Orkney Museum is located in Tankerness House, Kirkwall. This town house was acquired by James Baikie of Tankerness in 1641. Baikie was a successful Kirkwall merchant and a descendant of Paul Baikie, navigator to King Håkon IV of Norway. To the south of Loch of Tankerness, is the Hall of Tankerness. This is a 19th-century farm steading on the site of the 12th-century drinking hall of Erling of Tankerness. Nearby is a pier, once used by the herring fleets. Rerwick Head is the site of a Second World War battery. A variety of concrete buildings remain, including those that housed two six-inch guns salvaged from the battleship HMS Iron Duke. The guns,…
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- Coordinates
- 58.9500, -2.8500
- District
- Orkney Islands
- Postcode
- KW17 2QT
- Parliamentary constituency
- Orkney and Shetland
Sources
- wikidata: Q15059278 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Tankerness (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Palaces · 1.5 km
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📷 3Frequently asked questions
- Where is Tankerness?
- Tankerness is in the Scottish Islands, United Kingdom (postcode KW17 2QT).
- What is Tankerness?
- Tankerness in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom.
- How do I get to Tankerness?
- Drivers can use postcode KW17 2QT.
- How do I get to Tankerness?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode KW17 2QT. It sits within the Orkney and Shetland parliamentary constituency.