Descriptive gazetteer entries

We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about Walls, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to Walls in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Flotta	island	Bartholomew
Longhope	a hamlet and a sea-loch or long bay	Groome
Longhope	hamlet	Bartholomew
Melsetter	seat	Bartholomew
Pharay (Fara, or South Pharay)	island	Bartholomew
Pharay, South	an island	Groome

Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Walls like this:

Walls and Flotta, par., Orkney, 24,327 ac., pop. 1506; comprises the S. portion of Hoy island, and the whole of Flotta and Pharay islands.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Walls by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Walls within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Thomas Pennant	August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Longhope	0	2
Flotta	0	2
Hoy	0	3
Graemsay	0	2
Orphir	0	2
Scapa Flow	0	2
Pentland Firth	0	2
Swona	0	2
Stromness	0	2
St Margarets Hope	0	2
South Ronaldsay	0	2
Stroma	0	1
Stenness	0	2
Burray	0	2
Rattar	0	2
Finstown	0	2
Mey	0	2
Gills	0	2
Mainland	0	2
Firth	0	2