Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Balfour

Balfour, hamlet, Shapinshay par., Orkney, 5 miles NE. of Kirkwall; P.O. Balfour Castle is in the vicinity.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Shapinsay ScoP       Orkney ScoCnty

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