📌Isle of Hoy, Orkney Isles
★★★★
When alighting from the vehicle ferry at Lyness, Hoy, one of the first things you’ll notice is a large white building backed by an industrial-looking metal cylinder. Not particularly promising from the outside, but these buildings (and a few others) are home to Hoy’s best man-made attraction: a superb museum dedicated to Scapa Flow’s eventful wartime history. The large site encompasses a trio of impressive buildings full of exhibitions, vehicles and boats of all shapes and sizes; a couple of hours here and you’ll never look at this section of Orkney’s inshore waters in the same way again.
🌍 Location
📌 Lyness Ferry Terminal, Hoy
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: ND 310947
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 58.833986,-3.196920
🚢 Ferry to Lyness | 🚌 Infrequent bus from elsewhere on Hoy
🚗 Car park
📝 Key info
⌚ Daily, May to September; Monday to Saturday in April; Tuesday to Saturday, March & October to November; Thursday to Saturday in December
🎫 Free
