Treasured Places
Date 22 November 2007
Event ID 553619
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Treasured Places
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/553619
Stromness is located on the sheltered bay of Hamnovoe. In 1700 it was recorded as containing only five houses with slate roofs, expansion beginning later that century when the harbour became a base for the Hudson's Bay Company and a stopping point for whaling ships heading north. The town's waterfront is dominated by storehouses and houses which were built, gable-end facing the harbour, on their own piers.
Information from RCAHMS (SC) 22 November 2007
Ritchie, A 1985