2023 of the ParishCup was won by Westray in a final against Stenness. The first round draw was made on 11 April live on BBC Radio Orkney. 7 May 2023 (2023-05-07)...
second-most populous town in Orkney, Scotland. It is in the southwestern part of Mainland, Orkney. It is a burgh with a parish around the outside with the...
league. The OAFA also organise The ParishCup a competition between the residents of parishes that make up Orkney. In order to join the association, clubs...
Retrieved 29 June 2014. "Orkney and Shetland". Historic Hospitals. 19 May 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2020. "Shetland Islands – List of cup winners". Rec.Sport...
years ago. The well-preserved village of Skara Brae on the mainland of Orkney dates from this period. Neolithic habitation, burial, and ritual sites are...
Energy Centre. For services to Renewable Energy and to the community in Orkney. Derek Irwin Keys. Founder, Euro Auctions. For services to the Economy....
Glachan. James Stockan announces he will step down from the post of leader of Orkney Islands Council, as well as relinquishing his council seat, after six years...
third-largest island town in Scotland after Kirkwall in Orkney and Lerwick in Shetland. The historical civil parish of Stornoway, which includes various nearby villages...
Christmas and Hogmanay at: Duns, Berwickshire Scone, Perthshire Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands Games still played at UK public (private) schools: Eton field game...
important as the largest in the north of Scotland and serves the ferry route to Orkney and Shetland. Established in 1136, the harbour has been referred to as the...
origin: relating the name to the variably Celtic etymologies of neighbouring Orkney and Shetland, Scottish writers James Currie and William J. Watson suggested...
at the Church of the Holy Rude in Stirling, by Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, on 29 July 1567. The sermon at the coronation was preached by John Knox...
William Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and Caithness, in exchange for the castle in Kirkwall and the right to the Earldom of Orkney. The first school to be established...
infant James VI was anointed King of Scots by Adam Bothwell, the Bishop of Orkney, with the service concluding after a sermon by John Knox. The poet King...
forward dies after neck cut in Challenge Cup match". BBC Sport. 29 October 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2023. The Panthers said on Sunday they were 'devastated'...
of Scotland Islands of Scotland Hebrides Inner Hebrides Outer Hebrides Orkney Islands Shetland Islands Islands of the Clyde Islands of the Forth List...
Chief Whip, was born on Islay to hill-farming parents. He has represented Orkney and Shetland at Westminster since 2001. Donald Caskie (1902–1983) was born...
by royal charter in 1966. It has other campuses in the Scottish Borders, Orkney, United Arab Emirates and Putrajaya in Malaysia. It takes the name Heriot-Watt...
December 24, 2017. Retrieved December 24, 2017. "Christmas Day Ba' 2023". Orkney.com. "Why football at Christmas is a very British tradition". BBC Bitesize...
translated from Gaelic means 'the bay castle'. In this isle there are two parish churches, that to the south called the kirk of Bride, the other north in...
the highest point on the island, in January 2010 it hosted the Dumfries Cup for the first time in 14 years, and in December of the same year it was also...
Archived from the original on 27 July 2023. Retrieved 27 July 2023. Sherwood, Sam; Bayer, Kurt (24 July 2023). "Missing Christchurch real estate agent...
the 1901 and 1921 censuses, all Skye parishes were more than 75 percent Gaelic-speaking. By 1971, only Kilmuir parish had more than three-quarters of Gaelic...
throughout Northwestern Europe. Some of these areas, such as Iceland, the Orkney and Shetland Islands, and the Faroe Islands, were hardly populated, whereas...
pool to another. At the ruined Kirk of Lady, near Overbister on Sanday, Orkney, are the Devil's Fingermarks, incised as parallel grooves into the parapet...
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