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Mainland (Orkney)

The largest of the Orkney islands divided into the parishes of Harray and Birsay, Sandwick, Stromness, Evie and Rendal, Firth, Orphir, Kirkwall and St Ola, and Holm. The island also included the burgh of Kirkwall. It was sometimes referred to (but not by Orcadians) as Pomona.

Orkney

A county in the north of Scotland.

Orkney

A group of islands in the north of Scotland, and a county.

Orkney synod

A Church of Scotland synod. It contained the presbyteries of Cairston, Kirkwall, and North Isles. The synod of Orkney originally contained both Orkney and Shetland. From 1646 to 1725 it was united with the synod of Sutherland and Caithness, and in 1830 Shetland was severed from Orkney and erected as a separate synod.

Sanday (Orkney)

One of the Orkney islands, in the parish of Cross and Burness and the county of Orkney. Not to be confused with the island of Sanday (Small Isles), or Sanda, in Argyll.