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14 Main Street, The West End Hotel, Including Railings 58°58′41″N 2°57′42″W / 58.97813°N 2.961794°W / 58.97813; -2.961794 ( 14 Main Street, The West End Hotel, Including
This building is now the Kirkwall West End Hotel. [1] A new purpose built hospital in New Scapa Road in Kirkwall opened in 1927. [2] A Macmillan House ward for cancer patients had opened at the Eastbank Hospital in 1993; this was replaced by a Macmillan House ward in the Balfour Hospital in March 2000. [3]
The hotel was owned by Mrs Mary Geddes, whose late husband had been a chemist in the town. The hotel had a bar and billiard room. Bar business was so good that she did not need to run the premises as a hotel and in 1892 decided to have the present Orkney Club building erected (just two doors away from the hotel) for the use of the members and ...
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Both Kirkwall (Old Norse: kirkjuvagr, church-bay) and St Ola may take their name from the church of St. Olaf, built about 1035 and the remains of which can be seen on Saint Olaf's Wynd in Kirkwall. Highland Park , the most northerly Scotch whisky distillery, is on the outskirts of Kirkwall.
The parish flanks the north side of the Sound and extends to within 2.5 miles (4.0 km) of Kirkwall, and contains the village of St Mary's Holm, as well as the island of Lamb Holm. The Mainland section is 6 miles (9.7 km) by 2 miles (3.2 km). [2] The shores are mostly rocky, and the interior consists of light thin, loamy land. [2]
Kirkwall was a Parliamentary Burgh that represented Kirkwall, Orkney in two successive District of Burghs, Tain and Wick.It tended to be affected by the same influential landowners who controlled the Orkney and Shetland seat, although as it was one of a number of mainland Burghs, this influence was not always decisive for choosing the MP
Sanday (/ ˈ s æ n d iː /, Scots: Sandee) is one of the inhabited islands of Orkney that lies off the north coast of mainland Scotland.With an area of 50.43 km 2 (19.5 sq mi), [4] it is the third largest of the Orkney Islands. [9]