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Sanday, Post Office Radio Station And Telephone Exchange
Radio Station (20th Century), Telephone Exchange (20th Century)
Site Name Sanday, Post Office Radio Station And Telephone Exchange
Classification Radio Station (20th Century), Telephone Exchange (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) The Wart; Warsetter
Canmore ID 125211
Site Number HY63NW 53
NGR HY 6306 3767
NGR Description Centred HY 6306 3767
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/125211
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Cross And Burness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY63NW 64 centred 6306 3767
Incorporates information from cancelled site HY63NW 64
The Post Office radio station and telephone exchange situated at The Wart is visible on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1997), 150m SE of Warsetter farmsteading (HY63NW 44). The mast and buildings lie within a fenced enclosure of two phases. The earlier rectangular enclosure matches that depicted on the current OS 1:10000 scale map (1974) which also shows a series of masts on the S side of the single storey buildings. The photographs show that the enclosure is now smaller and irregular shaped, whilst the masts have been replaced by a single lattice structure on the N side of the buildings.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), Janaury 2001.
