A961 road

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Orkney, Scotland

The A961 road is an A road in the Scottish Orkney Islands. Overall, it leads with Mainland, Lamb Holm, Glims Holm, Burray and South Ronaldsay on five islands that are connected by dikes.

Course

The A961 branches off to the south of the island's capital, Kirkwall on the A960 from. It runs in a southerly direction near the east coast of Scapa Bay to spar on the south coast. About a dam, the northernmost of the constructed during the Second World War, Churchill Barriers, the A961 leads to the uninhabited island of Lamb Holm. The listed makeshift church Italian Chapel in the west passing, the road leaves the Lamb Holm on the southwest coast and accessed via the second dam of the Churchill Barriers which also uninhabited island Glims Holm.

About the third Churchill Barrier, the A961 runs south to Burray. About a dam on the north coast of the island leader, it cuts off the head of Echna hole from the sea and reaches Burray Village on the south coast. The fourth of the Churchill Barriers brings the road finally on the island of South Ronaldsay. To the south west of the island village of St. Margaret's Hope binds, bends the A961 to the south and ends after a total length of 33 km at the ferry stop for John o 'Groats near the settlement of Burwick.

Churchill Barrier 1 between Mainland and Lamb Holm

Dam at the head of Loch Echna