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Finstown
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- Locality
- Finstown
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 530
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
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- Finstown
- located in/on physical feature
- Orkney Islands
- postal code
- KW17
- historic county
- Orkney Islands
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Finstown () is a village in the parish of Firth on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It is the fourth-largest settlement in the Orkney Islands.
According to travel author Eric Linklater, the homes in Finstown are tidy and well cared for. This settlement is situated along the Bay of Firth, whose fringe is a shallow intertidal mudflat. The village is situated at the junction of the A965 and the A966. In 2011 it has a population of 440.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Finstown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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