Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
Stenness, parish (Orkney)
Grid reference
HY 310 124 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
331000 101240
Latitude
58.99355220506608
Longitude
-3.2009298923660383
Nearby places
St Mary's Kirk, Grimston in Harray (1.12 miles)
Firth, parish ORK (3.25 miles)
Harray, former parish, Birsay & Harray (3.42 miles)
Mary Kirk, eccles. Harray, Birsay & Harray (3.42 miles)
St Michael's Church, Harray, Birsay & Hry (3.42 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Parish TLA
STE
County
Orkney
Medieval diocese
Orkney
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Stenness
This is not a hagiotoponym.Head name
Stenness
Place
Stenness, parish (Orkney)
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
Map Layers
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Default map:
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Satellite map:
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Satellite map with labels:
Base map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA, Imagery © Mapbox
Modern OS map:
Ordnance Survey OpenData. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (2010)
OS 1840-1880 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
OS 1920-1933 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
