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The Shapinsay development trust has created a community plan for the island and owns a wind turbine, which was erected in August 2011 after the community voted for its construction. According to the development trust, the turbine could earn more than £5 million during its 25-year lifetime.
The Rural Development Council was an advisory body to the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, Richard Lochhead MSP. Its members include: Barbara Kelly; Donald MacRae of the Bank of Scotland; Stuart Housden, the Director of RSPB Scotland; Derek Logie of the Rural Housing Service; Liberal Democrat Councillor Alison ...
Upload another image Balfour Castle (With Garden Gateway) Sound 59°01′54″N 2°55′00″W / 59.031704°N 2.916772°W / 59.031704; -2.916772 (Balfour Castle (With Garden Gateway) Sound) Category A 18615 Upload another image Balfour Castle Doocot, 59°01′47″N 2°54′36″W / 59.029614°N 2.910097°W / 59.029614; -2.910097 (Balfour Castle Doocot ...
Burroughston Broch is an Iron Age broch located on the island of Shapinsay in the Orkney Islands, in Scotland ( grid reference HY54062100 ). The site overlooks the North Sea on the northeast part of Shapinsay. Excavated in the mid 19th century, Burroughston Broch is still well-preserved. The drystone walls are up to four metres thick in some ...
John Balfour (6 November 1750 – 15 October 1842) was a Scottish politician and a civil servant in the East India Company with connections to the Orcadian island of Shapinsay. Background [ edit ] John Balfour was the son of William Balfour, a factor to the Dundas family. [2]
Coordinates: 59°2′31″N 2°53′46″W. Mill Dam wetlands. Mill Dam is a wetland in western Shapinsay, in Orkney, Scotland . This water body was not shown on the 1840 survey map of the island, since it is a man-made creation from a damming in the 1880s. [1] Mill Dam is fed by a stream flowing from the north that rises on the western lobe of ...
With an area of 29.5 square kilometres (11.4 sq mi), Shapinsay is the eighth largest island in the Orkney archipelago. It is low-lying and fertile, consequently most of the area is given over to farming. Shapinsay has two nature reserves and is notable for its bird life. (Full article...
Geo of Ork. Geo of Ork from the sea. The Geo of Ork is a narrow and deep cleft in the cliff face of the northernmost point on the island of Shapinsay in the Orkney islands. The term geo or gya derives from Old Norse gjá. [1] This landform was created by the wave driven erosion of cliffs along faults or bedding planes in the rock. [2]