Orphir
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Orphir (pronounced Template:IPAc-en, Template:Langx or Script error: No such module "Lang".)[1][2][3] is a parish and settlement on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland.
It is approximately Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of Kirkwall, and comprises a seaboard tract of about Script error: No such module "convert"., and includes Cava and the Holm of Houton. The coast includes Houton Head, about Script error: No such module "convert". tall, but all elsewhere is nearly level; and the interior is an assemblage of vales and hills, the latter culminating at about Script error: No such module "convert". above sea level.
A chief residence was the Hall of Clestrain; and chief antiquities include the ruins of Earl Paul's Palace, remains of pre-Reformation chapels, the Round Kirk and several tumuli.
The ferry terminal of Houton is located in Orphir. The ferries to Flotta and Hoy (Lyness) depart from this point.[4] Ramsdale Shooting Range is also located in Orphir.
Notable people
- John Rae (1813–1893), the explorer of Canada's Arctic was born at the Hall of Clestrain in this parish.
- Henry Halcro Johnston, botanist and international rugby union player was born and died at Orphir.
- Jamie Halcro Johnston, Scottish Conservative MSP, was brought up at Orphir.
- Margaret Manson Graham (1860–1933), missionary nurse in Nigeria, born in Orphir.[5]
- John Gerard Anderson (1836–1911), Australian educationist
References
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- ↑ Anderson, Joseph (Ed.) (1893) Orkneyinga Saga. Translated by Jón A. Hjaltalin & Gilbert Goudie. Edinburgh. James Thin and Mercat Press (1990 reprint). Template:ISBN
- ↑ Pedersen, Roy (January 1992) Orkneyjar ok Katanes (map, Inverness, Nevis Print)
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- ↑ "Orphir / Houton", VisitScotland.com
- ↑ "Margaret Manson Graham" in Elizabeth L. Ewan, Sue Innes, Sian Reynolds, and Rose Pipes, ed., The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (Edinburgh University Press 2006): 142-143. Template:ISBN
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This article incorporates text from - Wilson, Rev. John The Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1882) Published by W. & A.K. Johnstone
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