Whome
Whome is a Village in the county of Orkney Islands.
Whome postcode: KW16 3NP
There are great places to visit near Whome.
Whome History
There are some historic monuments around Whome:
- Scapa Flow, wrecks of 3 battleships of German High Seas Fleet 20th Century Military and Related: Shipwreck SM9298
- Crockness,Martello Tower,Long Hope Secular: martello tower SM2726
- Green Hill of Hestiegeo,broch Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch SM1422
- Greenhill Broch, South Walls, Orkney Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch SM10974
- Scapa Flow, wrecks of 4 cruisers of German High Seas Fleet 20th Century Military and Related: Shipwreck SM9308
- Lavacroon, settlement W of Bu of Orphir Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement; Secular: Viking settlement, Norse settlement SM6405
- Quoy, anti-aircraft battery (WW2) and radar 220m WSW of 20th Century Military and Related: Anti-aircraft/barrage balloon site SM13560
- Houton, chapel 60m E of Sunnybraes Ecclesiastical: chapel SM3245
- Hoxa Battery and Balfour Battery, coastal battery complexes, Hoxa Head 20th Century Military and Related: Battery SM3268
- Stromabank Hotel, anti-aircraft battery, radar site and camp 150m NW of Secular: anti-aircraft/ barrage balloon site SM13558
- Roan Head, coastal battery and camp (WW1) 20th Century Military and Related: Battery SM10945
- St Nicholas' Church, settlement and mill, Orphir Ecclesiastical: church; Secular: Viking settlement, Norse settlement SM13379
- Stanger Head Battery,Stanger Head 20th Century Military and Related: Battery SM3302
- Hackness, Battery and Martello Tower 20th Century Military and Related: Battery; Secular: martello tower SM90211
- Golta, World War II Z Battery and Light AA Battery, Flotta 20th Century Military and Related: Barracks SM10946
- Bu of Orphir, burnt mound and mill dam 250m NW of Bu Farm Industrial: farming, food production; Prehistoric domestic and defensive: burnt mound SM4725
- Innan Neb, coast batteries, barrage balloon site and camp 20th Century Military and Related: Anti-aircraft/barrage balloon site SM13555
- Houton Head, battery 325m W of Sunnybraes 20th Century Military and Related: Anti-submarine boom-tethering point SM13465
- Buchanan Battery,Stanger Head 20th Century Military and Related: Battery SM3253
- Roan Head, World War II Balloon Barrage site, 290m SW of, Golta 20th Century Military and Related: Civil defence (eg. air raid shelter) SM10944
