Burray




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Burray

Norse name		 Borgarey
Location


Burray is located in Orkney Islands

Burray

Burray



Burray shown within the Orkney Islands

OS grid reference ND460963
Coordinates 58°51′04″N 2°55′48″W / 58.851°N 2.93°W / 58.851; -2.93
Physical geography
Island group Orkney
Area 903 hectares (3.5 sq mi)
Area rank 55 [1]
Highest elevation 80 metres (262 ft)
Administration
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Country Scotland
Council area Orkney Islands
Demographics
Population 409[2]
Population rank 24 [1]
Population density 45 people/km2[2][3]
Largest settlement Burray Village
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References
[3][4][5][6]

Burray is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland. It lies to the east of Scapa Flow and is one of a chain of islands linked by the Churchill Barriers.




Contents






  • 1 Geography and geology


  • 2 Visitor attractions


  • 3 History


    • 3.1 Viking History


    • 3.2 Sir James Stewart


    • 3.3 WWII and construction of Churchill Barriers




  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Geography and geology




Sheep on Burray


Burray lies between Mainland, Orkney and South Ronaldsay, and is linked to both by the Churchill Barriers. Barriers 1, 2, and 3 connect Burray with Mainland, Orkney via the islets of Glimps Holm and Lamb Holm in Holm Sound to the north east. Barrier 4 links to South Ronaldsay, across Water Sound. To the west is the tidal island of Hunda, also joined by a causeway. Further west, across Scapa Flow, are the islands of Flotta and Calf of Flotta, approximately 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) away.


In 2001, the population of Burray was 357,[7] a total that had grown to 409 by 2011.[2] The main settlement, Burray Village, is a former fishing port on the south west coast. There are also settlements of Northtown, Southtown and Hillside on the island.


Burray is made up of Old Red Sandstone of the Devonian period.[3] The island is indented in the north west by Echnaloch Bay, which takes its name from Echna Loch. Burray Ness and Burray Haas are two headlands in the east.



Visitor attractions


Attractions in Burray include the Fossil and Heritage Centre at Viewforth.[8][9]


The island has a reasonable amount of birdlife, with not just gulls (herring and lesser backed) breeding here, but curlew.[3]



History



Viking History


One of the largest Viking hoards in Scotland[10] was discovered on 22 April 1889 by Mr G Petrie, Little Wart, Burray when he was peat-cutting in the North Town Moss.[11] It consisted of over 140 items of silver bullion, including many fragments of arm ring or 'ring-money', and about a dozen coins[12] The date proposed for deposition is c.998.[13]



Sir James Stewart


During the early 18th century, the laird of Burray was one Sir James Stewart. Stewart is said to have been involved with a murder in Kirkwall in 1725, and went on the run for twenty years. A Jacobite sympathiser, he ended up fighting in the Battle of Culloden in 1746, and was one of the few survivors. However, when he returned to Burray after the battle, he happened to chance upon the son of the murder victim, who reported him to the authorities. Stewart was arrested, and ended up dying in a prison cell in London.[3]


The novelist Mary Brunton was born Mary Balfour on Burray on 1 November 1778.[14]



WWII and construction of Churchill Barriers




Churchill Barrier 3, linking Glimps Holm and Burray


Main article: Churchill Barriers

On 14 October 1939, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk at her moorings within the natural harbour of Scapa Flow, by the German submarine U-47 under the command of Günther Prien. U-47 had entered Scapa Flow through Holm Sound, just to the north of Burray, one of several eastern entrances to Scapa Flow. The eastern passages were protected by measures including sunken block ships, booms and anti-submarine nets, but U-47 entered at night at high tide by navigating between the block ships.


To prevent further attacks, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill ordered the construction of permanent barriers. Work began in May 1940 and the barriers were completed in September 1944, but were not officially opened until 12 May 1945, four days after the end of World War II.


The Churchill Barriers project required a substantial labour force, which peaked in 1943 at over two thousand. Much of the labour was provided by around 1200 Italian prisoners of war,[15] who had been captured in the desert war in North Africa, who were transported to Orkney from early 1942 onwards. As the use of POW labour for War Effort works is prohibited under the Geneva Conventions, the works were justified as 'improvements to communications' to the southern Orkney Islands.


The prisoners were accommodated in two camps, some at Camp 34 at Warebanks on Burray[16] and the rest at Camp 60 on Lamb Holm where the famous Italian Chapel was built. Camp 34 had its own chapel[17] but this was destroyed at the end of the war with the rest of the camp.[16] Photos exist of Camp 34's football team[18] and band.[19]



References





  1. ^ ab Area and population ranks: there are c. 300 islands over 20 ha in extent and 93 permanently inhabited islands were listed in the 2011 census.


  2. ^ abc National Records of Scotland (15 August 2013) (pdf) Statistical Bulletin: 2011 Census: First Results on Population and Household Estimates for Scotland - Release 1C (Part Two). "Appendix 2: Population and households on Scotland’s inhabited islands". Retrieved 17 August 2013.



  3. ^ abcde Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  4. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 6 Orkney (Mainland) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319228128.


  5. ^ Anderson, Joseph (Ed.) (1893) Orkneyinga Saga. Translated by Jón A. Hjaltalin & Gilbert Goudie. Edinburgh. James Thin and Mercat Press (1990 reprint).
    ISBN 0-901824-25-9


  6. ^ Pedersen, Roy (January 1992) Orkneyjar ok Katanes (map) Inverness: Nevis Print


  7. ^ General Register Office for Scotland (28 November 2003) Scotland's Census 2001 – Occasional Paper No 10: Statistics for Inhabited Islands. Retrieved 26 February 2012.



  8. ^ "The Churchill barriers". Living in Orkney. Retrieved 2009-08-30.


  9. ^ "Orkney Fossil and Heritage". Retrieved 2011-07-03.


  10. ^ http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-100-102-609-C Retrieved on 28 January 2015


  11. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Monument No. 9579". Canmore. Retrieved 28 January 2015.


  12. ^ http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_107/107_114_135.pdf Retrieved on 28 January 2015


  13. ^ http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_023/23_318_322.pdf Retrieved on 28 January 2015


  14. ^ Isabelle Bour: Brunton , Mary... In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: OUP, 2004; online e. October 2005). Retrieved 18 November 2010. Subscription required.


  15. ^ http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/37614/1/WRAP_Custodis_jshs%252E2011%252E0007.pdf Retrieved on 17 June 2015


  16. ^ ab Historic Environment Scotland. "Monument No. 305602". Canmore. Retrieved 28 January 2015.


  17. ^ http://www.scapaflow.co/index.php/history_and_archaeology/the_20th_century/war/defences_in_and_around_scapa_flow/the_italian_chapel Retrieved on 04 March 2015


  18. ^ http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-182-940-C&scache=5vzyy2509g&searchdb=scran Retrieved on 28 January 2015


  19. ^ http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-182-915-C Retrieved on 28 January 2015




External links






  • Burray Community Association




Coordinates: 58°51′5″N 2°56′6″W / 58.85139°N 2.93500°W / 58.85139; -2.93500







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