Orphir Church 20110602
Orphir (pronounced , Old Norse: Jorfjara/OrfjaraPedersen, Roy (January 1992) ''Orkneyjar ok Katanes'' (map, Inverness, Nevis Print)) is a parish and settlement on Mainland, Orkney. It is approximately southwest of Kirkwall, and comprises a seaboard tract of about , and includes Cava, Orkney, Cava and the Holm of Houton. The coast includes Houton Head, about tall, but all elsewhere is nearly level; and the interior is an assemblage of vales and hills, the latter culminating at about above sea level. A chief residence was the Hall of Clestrain; and chief antiquities include the ruins of Earl Paul's Palace, remains of pre-Reformation chapels, the Round Kirk, Orphir, Round Kirk and several tumulus, tumuli. The ferry terminal of Houton is located in Orphir. The ferries to Flotta and Hoy (Lyness) depart from this point. Notable people * John Rae (explorer), John Rae (30 September 1813 – 22 July 1893), the Exploration, explorer of Canada's Arctic was born at the Hall of Cle ...
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