Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Backaskail

Backaskail, a bay in Cross and Burness parish, Sanday island, Orkney. It produces enormous quantities of shell-fish.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a bay"   (ADL Feature Type: "bays")
Administrative units: Cross and Burness Parish       Orkney County

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