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Hoxa Head Lighthouse in South Ronaldsay

Hoxa Head Lighthouse in Orkney Islands, South Ronaldsay is a lighthouse. Hoxa Head Lighthouse is also known as Hoxa Head Light. Hoxa Head Lighthouse is near Hoxa Head walk.

Building Type
building

Image

Hoxa Head From The Ferry Geograph.org.uk 931801
Hoxa Head from the Ferry – Sarah Charlesworth, CC BY-SA 2.0 – Wikimedia Commons

Tourist information offices

  • Balfour Coast Battery – approx. 150 m.
  • Orkney Walks Hoxa Head. Short walk of 1.5 miles passing the Battery sites of Hoxa and Balfour – approx. 600 m.

Artwork

  • Propeller – approx. 4,3 km.

Stations

  • Saint Margaret's Hope - Gills Bay Ferry Terminal – approx. 4,3 km.

Recycling centres

  • St Margaret's Hope Recycling Site (recycling centre) (KW17 2TG) – approx. 4,6 km.

Fast food restaurants

  • The Grill – approx. 4,6 km.

Bus stops

  • Doctors Road End – approx. 4,2 km.
  • Cromarty Hall – approx. 4,2 km.
  • Ferry Terminal – approx. 4,3 km.
  • Post Office – approx. 4,4 km.
  • Car Park – approx. 4,5 km.
  • Church Road End – approx. 4,6 km.
  • St Margaret's Road End – approx. 4,6 km.
  • Knockhall – approx. 5,0 km.
  • Starilie – approx. 5,9 km.

Attraction

  • Sands of Wright – approx. 2,1 km.
  • Museum – approx. 4,2 km.
  • Start - South Ronaldsay West Coast Walk – approx. 4,7 km.

Gallery

  • Hoxa Tapestry Gallery – approx. 1,0 km.

Shelter

  • waiting room (basic_hut) – approx. 2,1 km.

Hostel

  • Backpackers Hostel – approx. 4,3 km.

Craft shops

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

Laundries

  • Marengo laundrette – approx. 4,6 km.

Roads nearby

Hoxa Head walk
250 m
Uppertown Road
Uppertown, Uppertown Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery (WW2), Orkney Walks Hoxa Head, Hoxa Tapestry Gallery
1,5 km
Hoxa Road
1,6 km
Herston Road
2,1 km
Lowertown Road
Lowertown
3,6 km

Barns nearby

The site of Herston Village School
2,3 km
Newbigging
3,3 km

Beaches nearby

Sands of Wright
2,1 km

Body of waters nearby

disused quarry
2,9 km

Buildings nearby

Hoxa Battery
650 m
Hall of Hoxa
1,8 km
Roeberry Farmhouse
2,4 km
Herston Hall (former mission hall)
3,0 km
Olad Burn
3,2 km
Kirkhouse Mill (former watermill)
3,6 km

Bunkers nearby

Air raid shelter (ruins)
3,0 km

Cliffs nearby

Roeberry Taing
2,2 km

Farm buildings nearby

Heatherum
3,7 km

Farmhouses nearby

Roeberry Farm
2,3 km

Farmyards nearby

Uppertown
1,6 km
Quoybanks
3,3 km
Harrabrough aka Newcommon
3,5 km
Farewell
3,5 km
Heads
3,6 km
Hools
3,7 km
Kirkhouse Farm
3,7 km
Myre
3,8 km

Houses nearby

Midtown
2,4 km
Kirkhouse 1
3,6 km
Oback
3,9 km

Meadows nearby

Hall of Herston
2,6 km

Military areas nearby

Ruins of Radar and anti-aircraft battery
2,0 km
Part of a former REME base (WW2)
2,1 km
Search light (ruins)
2,8 km
Buchanan Battery (ruins)
2,8 km
Dispersed beam search light (ruins)
2,9 km
Emergency observation post (ruins)
2,9 km
Dispersed beam search light (ruins)
2,9 km
Water tower (ruins)
3,0 km
Engine room (ruins)
3,0 km
Fuel store (ruins)
3,0 km
Transmitter/Receiver station (ruins)
3,0 km
Port War Signal Station (ruins)
3,0 km

Rocks nearby

Nevi Skerry
2,6 km

Ruins nearby

Quoy (ruins)
3,3 km

Straits nearby

Sound of Hoxa
3,4 km

Streams nearby

Oback Burn
3,6 km

Other nearby

Gills Bay - St Margaret's Hope ferry
800 m
Howe of Hoxa - broch (Iron Age)
2,3 km
Inception 1901
Dissolved 1996
Operator Northern Lighthouse Board
Located in Orkney Islands
Country United Kingdom
Body of water Scapa Flow
Location Hoxa Head