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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 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 and several tumuli.
The ferry terminal of Houton is located in Orphir. The ferries to Flotta and Hoy (Lyness) depart from this point."Orphir / Houton", VisitScotland.com
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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 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 and several tumuli.
The ferry terminal of Houton is located in Orphir. The ferries to Flotta and Hoy (Lyness) depart from this point./ref>
Notable people
* John Rae (30 September 1813 – 22 July 1893), the explorer of Canada's Arctic was born at the Hall of Clestrain in this parish. *Henry Halcro Johnston
Colonel Henry Halcro Johnston CB CBE DL FRSE FLS (13 September 1856 – 18 October 1939) was a Scottish botanist, physician, rugby union international and Deputy Lieutenant for Orkney. As a member of Edinburgh University RFC he represente ...
, botanist and international rugby union player was born and died at Orphir.
* Jamie Halcro Johnston, Scottish Conservative MSP, was brought up at Orphir.
* Margaret Manson Graham (1860-1933), missionary nurse in Nigeria, born in Orphir"Margaret Manson Graham"in Elizabeth L. Ewan, Sue Innes, Sian Reynolds, and Rose Pipes, ed., ''The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women'' (Edinburgh University Press 2006): 142-143.
References
This article incorporates text from - Wilson, Rev. John ''The Gazetteer of Scotland'' (Edinburgh, 1882) Published by W. & A.K. Johnstone Villages on Mainland, Orkney Parishes of Orkney Tumuli in Scotland {{Orkney-geo-stub