Papa Stour is one of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, with a population of under fifteen people, some of whom immigrated after an appeal for residents...
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Papa Stour Airstrip is a small airstrip in the village of Biggings on the island of Papa Stour. Shetland, Scotland. Papa Stour Airstrip opened in December...
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The Papa Stour Sword Dance, or Shetland Sword Dance, is a British linked sword dance involving seven dancers, who represent the Seven Champions of Christendom:...
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SIC Ferries (section Papa Stour)
(on Whalsay), Vidlin or Lerwick both on the Mainland. Papa Stour service to the Isle of Papa Stour from West Burrafirth on the Mainland. Whalsay service...
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Living Museum, England East Stour (disambiguation) Papa Stour Stour Brook Stour Row Stour Valley (disambiguation) West Stour (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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and Whalsay, which lie to the east. East and West Burra, Muckle Roe, Papa Stour, Trondra, and Vaila are smaller islands to the west of Mainland. The other...
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January Gregorian. The writer and journalist John Sands lived on Foula and Papa Stour for a while during the late 19th century. He opposed the prevailing truck...
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Forewick Holm is a 1-hectare (2.5-acre) island in the Sound of Papa, between Papa Stour and the Mainland of Shetland. It lies adjacent to a skerry called...
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group of seals resting in the Ve Skerries were ambushed and skinned by Papa Stour fishermen, but as these were actually seal-folk, the spilling of the blood...
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tidal island off Papa, Shetland Papa Little Papa Stour (Great Papa) Sound of Papa, a strait between Papa Stour and the Sandness peninsula. Gaelic, Pabaigh...
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1840s. Its name means "little island of the papar" (as distinct from Papa Stour), who were Gaelic hermits or Culdees found as far north as Iceland. Elizabeth...
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Papa Stour with its outliers Brei Holm, Fogla Skerry and Maiden Stack. Forewick Holm, and Holm of Melby lie in the Sound of Papa that separates Papa Stour...
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Burra, in West Burra Hamnavoe, Eshaness, in Eshaness Hamnavoe, Papa Stour, in Papa Stour Hamnavoe, Lunna Ness, in Lunna Ness Hamnavoe, Yell, in Yell Hamnavoe...
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This List of Bays of Shetland Islands summarises the bays that are located on the islands of the Shetland Islands in Scotland. The small island of Balta...
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Retta Skerries, Spoose Holm, Steggies. Papa; Hogg of Papa, Papa Skerry, Skerry of Bag, West Head of Papa. Papa Stour; Aesha Stack, Boinna Skerry, Borse Skerry...
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ferry operated by the SIC Ferries. She operates as the West Burrafirth to Papa Stour service. The ship was originally named MV Filla until 2003. Filla was...
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List of sea stacks in Scotland (section Papa Stour)
Buxton 1995, p. 79. "Papa Stour, Maiden Stack". Canmore. Retrieved 04 April 2024. Haswell-Smith 2004, pp. 451–52. "Papa Stour". Shetland Amenity Trust...
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Biggings is a village on the island of Papa Stour, in Shetland, Scotland. Papa Stour's church is situated at the south of Biggings. A homestead of Duke...
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Sound between Vaila and Whitesness on the West Mainland Sound of Papa between Papa Stour and West Mainland Uyea Sound between Uyea and Unst Vaila Sound...
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group of low skerries (rocky islands) three miles (4.8 km) north west of Papa Stour, on the west coast of Shetland, Scotland. They define the southwest perimeter...
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exceptionally large cave underlying the Fogla Skerry, an islet off the coast of Papa Stour, in the Shetland Islands. Though unsurveyed, estimates place it at almost...
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Ronaldsay Inverness Dundee Sumburgh Eday Edinburgh Fair Isle Islay Sanday Foula Papa Westray Glasgow Prestwick Kirkwall Stornoway Stronsay Tingwall Tiree Westray...
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Whalsay Yell Unst Fair Isle Fetlar Bressay East and West Burra Muckle Roe Papa Stour Trondra Out Skerries Mousa About 800 other islands Anglesey (the largest...
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Walter Scott published a rhyme which had been used as a prelude to the Papa Stour Sword Dance, Shetland in around 1788. It features seven characters, Saint...
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Just Prose (2003) The Nativity (2003) The Passion (2003) The Prisoner of Papa Stour (1996) BAFTA (1996, for Small Faces) Ian Charleson Commendation (1999...
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a civil parish, which also included the island of Papa Stour some 1600 metres northwest across Papa Sound. In 1891, it was combined with Walls to the...
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north of Brei Holm and east of Housa Voe about 140 metres (150 yd) off Papa Stour. Reaching 7.6 metres (25 ft) above sea level the stack is the highest...
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the parish of Walls and Sandness which includes the islands of Foula, Papa Stour, Vaila and Linga. The name is from the Old Norse: Vágar meaning voes or...
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name in Kentucky) Ve, a village in Norway Ve, a group of skerries off Papa Stour in the Shetland Islands, Scotland Vi, a village near Sundsvall in Sweden...
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Airport, Tingwall Airport, North Ronaldsay Airport, Oban Airport, Papa Stour Airstrip, Papa Westray Airport, Sanday Airport, Stornoway Airport, Stronsay Airport...
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