South Walls part of Hoy

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South Walls is an inhabited island adjacent to Hoy in Orkney, Scotland. The name is a corruption of "Sooth Was", which means the "southern voes" - as with Kirkwall, it was assumed that it was a mispronunciation of "walls".

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Walls
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Coordinates:   58°47'32"N   3°10'40"W
This article was last modified 14 years ago