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Hoy, North Ness, Ship Inn

Building (19th Century), Inn (20th Century), Post Office (20th Century)

Site Name Hoy, North Ness, Ship Inn

Classification Building (19th Century), Inn (20th Century), Post Office (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Longhope; Melsetter Post Office And Old Ship Inn

Canmore ID 179939

Site Number ND39SW 94

NGR ND 30552 91473

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/179939

Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000807262. All rights reserved.
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Hoy, North Ness, Ship Inn.
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Hoy, North Ness, Ship Inn.
General view from N.View of the Ship Inn, Norht Ness, Hoy from the north

Administrative Areas

  • Council Orkney Islands
  • Parish Walls And Flotta
  • Former Region Orkney Islands Area
  • Former District Orkney
  • Former County Orkney

Archaeology Notes

ND39SW 94 30552 91473

The Ship Inn, depicted on the 1st dition of the OS 6-inch map, (Shetland and Orkney, sheet cxxiii, 1882) and noted in the Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB 1880) as 'applied to an Inn in North Ness, two stories (sic) high the most southerly house in the district of North Ness. The property of I G Moodie Riddle Esq. Melsetter, Hoy'.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), February 2001.

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