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Stromness Data Recovery
| Stromness | |
 A view of Stromness |
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  Stromness
Stromness shown within Scotland |
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| Population | 2,200 (approx.) |
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| OS grid reference | |
| Council area | Orkney Islands |
| Lieutenancy area | Orkney Islands |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | STROMNESS |
| Postcode district | KW16 |
| Dialling code | 01856 |
| Police | Northern |
| Fire | Highlands and Islands |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| EU Parliament | Scotland |
| UK Parliament | Orkney and Shetland |
| Scottish Parliament | Orkney |
| List of places: UK • Scotland • | |
Stromness
Stromness /ˈstrɔmnəs/ is the second-largest town in Orkney, Scotland, and is located in the south-west of Mainland in Orkney. It is also a parish, with the town of Stromness as its capital.
Etymology
The name "Stromness" is derived from the Norse language. "Strom" refers to the strong tides that rip past the Point of Ness to the south of the town. "Ness" means "headland", and Stromness is thus literally "strong tide headland".[1] In Viking times Stromness was called Hamnavoe, meaning "peaceful or safe harbour".
Town
A long-established seaport, it has a population of approximately 2,190 residents. The old town is clustered along the characterful and winding main street, flanked with houses and shops built from local stone, with narrow lanes and alleys branching off it. There is a ferry link from Stromness to Scrabster on the north coast of mainland Scotland.
First recorded as the site of an inn in the 16th century, Stromness became important during the late 17th century, when England was at war with France and shipping was forced to avoid the English Channel. Ships of the Hudson's Bay Company were regular visitors, as were whaling fleets. Large numbers of Orkneymen, notably from Stromness, served as traders, explorers and seamen for both. Stromness Museum reflects these aspects of the town's history (displaying for example important collections of whaling relics, and Inuit artefacts brought back as souvenirs by local men from Greenland and Arctic Canada). An unusual aspect of the town's character is the large number of buildings decorated with displays of whale-bones outside them.
Writer George Mackay Brown was born and lived most of his life in the town.
Stromness is referenced in the title of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's popular piano piece Farewell to Stromness, a piano interlude from The Yellow Cake Revue, first performed on 21 June 1980 at the Stromness Hotel by the composer as part of the St. Magnus Festival.
Parish
The parish of Stromness comprehends the Isle of Hoy and a tract of about 5 miles by 3¾ on Mainland. The main part is bounded on the west by the Atlantic, on the south and the south-east by Hoy Sound, on the north-east by the Loch of Stenness.
Antiquities include Breckness House, erected in 1633 by the last bishop of Orkney at the west entrance of Hoy Sound; and an ancient cemetery, with ruined church, and remains of a monastery between Breckness House and Stromness town.
Geology
It presents to the Atlantic a range of cliffs from 100-500 ft high, to Hoy Sound a band of fertile lowlands; and it elsewhere consists mainly of bleak, sterile heights. The rocks possess great geological interest, and were made well-known by the publication of Hugh Miller, Asterolepsis of Stromness.
