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Orphir

Scottish parish in Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
AdministrativeArea civil_parish Q68816332

Facts

18 properties

Identity

Instance of
civil parish

Location

Country
United Kingdom[5]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 58.946°, -3.127°[13]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Orkney Islands (1996–present), Orkney Islands (?–1975), Orkney Islands (1975–1996)[2][3][4]
Located in/on physical feature
Mainland[14]
Shares border with
Firth, Kirkwall and St Ola, Stenness[6][7][8]

Population and size

Area
2,645 ha[22]
Population
537[15]
More facts +10
Catalog code
675, ORP, 54010[10][11][12]
Contains settlement
Orphir[20]
Coordinates of easternmost point
🗺️ 58.945°, -3.011°[18]
Coordinates of northernmost point
🗺️ 58.982°, -3.110°[16]
Coordinates of southernmost point
🗺️ 58.911°, -3.179°[17]
Coordinates of westernmost point
🗺️ 58.951°, -3.235°[19]
Historic county
Orkney Islands
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02
List of monuments
list of listed buildings in Orphir, Orkney[21]
Named after
Orphir[9]
🏷️ Also known as
en Orphir
🔖 Identifiers · 5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Orphir Countryside seen from the Orphir Round Church.jpg ↗
GB1900 ID
580f30a42c66dc1ce503ef51
GENUKI ID
sct/OKI/Orphir
Gazetteer for Scotland place ID
parishes/parfirst90
Vision of Britain unit ID
10181604

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Summary

Orphir is a civil parish[1].

Body

Geography

Located in include Orkney Islands[2], an archipelago[23], in United Kingdom[24].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . NRS shapefiles for Scottish parishes. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . NRS shapefiles for Scottish parishes. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . NRS shapefiles for Scottish parishes. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . NRS shapefiles for Scottish parishes. wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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