OS1/23/10/14

  1. Records
  2. Ordnance Survey Name Books
  3. Orkney OS Name Books, 1879-1880
  4. Orkney, Volume 10
  5. OS1/23/10/14
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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
GRAEMSAY Graemsay Imp. Gazetteers of Scotland
Stat. a/c of Scotland
North Sea Pilot		 106 Graemsay, one of the Orkney Islands. It lies in Hoy Sound, immediately south east of Hoy mouth, 1/2 mile south of the town of Stromness, and 1/2 mile east of Bow Kirk in the island of Hoy. It is about 1 1/2 mile in length, and 1 in breadth. Two lighthouses for guiding the navigation of Hoy Sound were erected in Graemsay in 1851.

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Hoy And Graemsay Parish, Orkney County

  Linked mapsheets.

Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Orkney, Sheet Cvi Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Orkney, Sheet Cvi