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Hoxa Battery in South Ronaldsay

Hoxa Battery in Orkney Islands, South Ronaldsay is ruins. Hoxa Battery is near Hoxa Head walk.

Building Type
building

Bus stops

  • Doctors Road End – approx. 4,2 km.
  • Cromarty Hall – approx. 4,2 km.
  • Post Office – approx. 4,3 km.
  • Ferry Terminal – approx. 4,3 km.
  • Car Park – approx. 4,5 km.
  • Church Road End – approx. 4,5 km.
  • St Margaret's Road End – approx. 4,5 km.
  • Knockhall – approx. 5,0 km.
  • Starilie – approx. 6,0 km.

Attraction

  • Sands of Wright – approx. 2,1 km.
  • Start - South Ronaldsay West Coast Walk – approx. 4,2 km.
  • Museum – approx. 4,2 km.

Shelter

  • waiting room (basic_hut) – approx. 2,2 km.

Hostel

  • Backpackers Hostel – approx. 4,3 km.

Stations

  • Saint Margaret's Hope - Gills Bay Ferry Terminal – approx. 4,4 km.

Fast food restaurants

  • The Grill – approx. 4,6 km.

Tourist information offices

  • Balfour Coast Battery – approx. 550 m.
  • Orkney Walks Hoxa Head. Short walk of 1.5 miles passing the Battery sites of Hoxa and Balfour – approx. 900 m.

Gallery

  • Hoxa Tapestry Gallery – approx. 1,3 km.

Artwork

  • Propeller – approx. 4,2 km.

Craft shops

  • The Workshop + Loft Gallery at Front Road (KW17 2SL) – approx. 4,3 km.

Recycling centres

  • St Margaret's Hope Recycling Site (recycling centre) (KW17 2TG) – approx. 4,5 km.

Laundries

  • Marengo laundrette – approx. 4,6 km.

Roads nearby

Hoxa Head walk
400 m
Uppertown Road
Uppertown, Uppertown Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery (WW2), Orkney Walks Hoxa Head, Hoxa Tapestry Gallery
1,7 km
Herston Road
1,7 km
Hoxa Road
1,9 km
Hools Road
3,4 km
Lowertown Road
Lowertown
3,7 km

Barns nearby

The site of Herston Village School
1,8 km
Newbigging
2,9 km

Beaches nearby

Sands of Wright
2,2 km

Body of waters nearby

disused quarry
3,0 km

Buildings nearby

Hoxa Head Lighthouse
650 m
Hall of Hoxa
2,1 km
Roeberry Farmhouse
2,3 km
Herston Hall (former mission hall)
2,5 km
Olad Burn
2,7 km
Kirkhouse Mill (former watermill)
3,2 km
Hallbreck
3,3 km
Quoydam
3,5 km

Bunkers nearby

Air raid shelter (ruins)
3,1 km

Cliffs nearby

Roeberry Taing
2,1 km

Farmhouses nearby

Roeberry Farm
2,3 km

Farmyards nearby

Uppertown
1,9 km
Quoybanks
2,8 km
Harrabrough aka Newcommon
2,9 km
Hools
3,2 km
Kirkhouse Farm
3,4 km
Myre
3,4 km

Houses nearby

Midtown
1,9 km
Kirkhouse 1
3,3 km
Oback
3,5 km

Meadows nearby

Hall of Herston
2,1 km

Military areas nearby

Ruins of Radar and anti-aircraft battery
1,5 km
Part of a former REME base (WW2)
2,1 km
Search light (ruins)
3,1 km
Water tower (ruins)
3,1 km
Engine room (ruins)
3,1 km
Fuel store (ruins)
3,1 km
Buchanan Battery (ruins)
3,1 km
Emergency observation post (ruins)
3,1 km
Transmitter/Receiver station (ruins)
3,1 km
Dispersed beam search light (ruins)
3,1 km
Port War Signal Station (ruins)
3,1 km
Dispersed beam search light (ruins)
3,1 km

Rocks nearby

Nevi Skerry
3,2 km

Ruins nearby

Quoy (ruins)
2,8 km

Straits nearby

Sound of Hoxa
3,2 km

Streams nearby

Oback Burn
3,3 km

Other nearby

Gills Bay - St Margaret's Hope ferry
1,4 km
Howe of Hoxa - broch (Iron Age)
2,5 km