Stenness, Orkney Islands

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Stenness is a village in Orkney Islands

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Stenness within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Stenness in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Stennes, quoad sacra par., Firth and Stennes, and Sandwick pars., Pomona, Orkney, on the Loch of Stennes, 4 miles NE. of Stromness and 10 miles W. of Kirkwall, pop. 697; P.O.; 1 mile NW. of Stennes church are the "Standing Stones of Stennes," two groups of ancient stone circles similar to those at Stonehenge.

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