Hoy and West Mainland National Scenic Area

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Description

Hoy and West Mainland is a national scenic area (NSA) covering parts of the islands of Hoy and Mainland in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, as well as parts of the surrounding sea. It is one of 40 such areas in Scotland, which are defined so as to identify areas of exceptional scenery and to ensure its protection by restricting certain forms of development. The Hoy and West Mainland NSA covers 24,407 ha in total, consisting of 16,479 ha of land with a further 7928 ha being marine (i.e. below low tide). The bold, rounded hills of North Hoy are a dominant feature across the area, and contrast with the pastoral landscape of West Mainland. Human activity has played an important part in producing the current landscape, with the neolithic monuments of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney sitting at the heart of the scattered farm steadings and stone dykes surrounding the Loch of Stenness.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Alfred Terrace
  • Bank Lane
  • Boy's Lane
  • Bridge of Brodgar
  • Brig o' Waithe
  • Brodgar Road
  • EuroVelo 12 - part United Kingdom
  • Ferry Road
  • Free Kirk Lane
  • Germiston Road
  • Graham Place
  • Gray's Noust
  • Khyber Pass
  • Manse Lane
  • Melvin Place
  • NCN National Route 1
  • North End Road
  • Raes Close
  • Stoneyhill Road

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Argo's Bakery
  • Back Saddles
  • Bailie Breck
  • Bea
  • Beneth'ill Cafe
  • Black Braes
  • Black Craig
  • Bracken Cap
  • Braebuster
  • Bridgend
  • Brinkies Brae
  • Broadi Face
  • Brodgar Stone Circle
  • Brunt Hill
  • Bu
  • Bu Hill
  • Burandie
  • Burraquoy
  • Buxa Farm Croft
  • Clay Mire
  • Clicknafea
  • Coopers Noust
  • Cuilags
  • Deep Dale
  • Dwarfie Hamars
  • Dwarfie Stane
  • Dykeside
  • East Linksness
  • Eastalet
  • Enegars
  • Enegras
  • Engefield
  • Face of Cletts
  • Fea
  • Flaga
  • Fulzie Geo
  • Garson
  • Geo of the Light
  • Geo of the Sow
  • Glen of Greor
  • Glen of the Horn
  • Glens of Broadiface
  • Glens of Kinnaird
  • Green Hamars
  • Greenhill
  • Grieveship West
  • Grims Dale
  • Grut Fea
  • Gyran
  • Haist
  • Hamars of Loundersfea
  • Hamnavoe
  • Hauses
  • Hellia
  • Hendry's Holes
  • High Fea
  • Hill of Lynedardy
  • Hill of Miffia
  • Hill of Quholm
  • Hillock of Howesdale
  • Hole o' Row
  • Houton
  • Howes of Quoyawa
  • Hoy
  • Innertown
  • Julia's Café & Bistro
  • Kay Breck
  • Kewan
  • Kingie Lang
  • Knap of Trowieglan
  • Langi Fea
  • Leaden Geo
  • Lenders Dale
  • Ling Holms
  • Linga Fiold
  • Little Hole of Lynedardy
  • Lounders Fea
  • Maeshowe
  • Maeshowe Visitor Centre
  • Meadow of the Kame
  • Mid Hill
  • Mill of Eyrland
  • Moor Fea
  • Moss of the Whitestanes
  • Muckle Tower
  • Murra
  • Newstead
  • North Hill
  • Nowt
  • Old Man of Hoy
  • Orkney Cycle Hire
  • Outertown Road
  • Peerie Tower
  • Point of Ness
  • Quoyawa
  • Rackwick
  • Red Glen
  • Ring of Brodgar
  • Rora Head
  • Round Hill
  • Royal Hotel
  • Runnarto
  • Sandy Geo
  • Sandy Hill
  • Scarsa
  • Segal
  • Skecking Gill
  • Smerr Dale
  • South Rusky Hill
  • St. John's Head
  • Stairs of the Heel
  • Standing Stones Hotel
  • Stany Hamars
  • Stenness
  • Stours Kinora
  • Streather Breck
  • Stromness
  • Stromness Cafe
  • Stromness Museum
  • Stromness Travel Centre
  • Strunting
  • Sui Fea
  • Suifea Lochs
  • Sunar Dee
  • The Bring
  • The Co-operative Food
  • The Stour
  • The Stromness Hotel
  • The Tongue
  • The Witter
  • Too of the Head
  • Tuaks of the Boy
  • Tuifea
  • Visitor Centre Car Park
  • Visitor Centre additional and bus parking
  • Vow Randie
  • Ward Hill
  • West Linksness
  • Whelky Geo
  • Whimsack
  • White Braes
  • White Cos's Hole
  • White Glen
  • Whitefowl Hill

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The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from Viewfinderpanoramas.org (Jonathan de Ferranti). Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Grinner https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_man_of_hoy2.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)