Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Papa Stour

Papa Stour, island, Walls par., Shetland, on S. side of St Magnus Bay, 11 m. NW. of Walls, pop. 254; P.O.; the island measures 2½ miles in length and 2½ miles in breadth, and presents interesting coast scenery; it was a northern centre of the early Culdees.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "island"   (ADL Feature Type: "islands")
Administrative units: Walls and Sandness ScoP       Shetland ScoCnty
Place: Papa Stour

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