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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "SCAPA FLOW":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Holm	Orkney	Scapa Flow, and NW by Kirkwall. Its utmost length, from NW to SE, is 6 miles; its utmost breadth is 3¾ miles	Groome
  Hoy	Orkney	Scapa Flow, 5½ to 11 miles broad; and from Caithness by the Pentland Firth, which here has a minimum	Groome
  Kirkwall	Orkney	Scapa Bay. The distance across the centre of the parish from the sea at Scapa Bay to the sea at Kirkwall Bay, excluding the Peerie Sea, is 1 5 / 8 mile; but the greatest length, from a point W of Wideford Hill on the W to Head of Holland on the E, is 5 3 / 8 miles; and the extreme breadth, from Car Head on the N to the point on Scapa Flow	Groome
  Longhope	Orkney	Scapa Flow, opposite Flotta Island, is sheltered across the entrance, at the distance of about 1 mile, by Flotta and Switha	Groome
  Orkney	Orkney	Scapa Flow; and from Burray by Holm Sound. The third group lies NE of the Mainland islands, and consists of Westray	Groome
  Orphir	Orkney	Scapa Flow, 9 miles WSW of Kirkwall, under which it has a post office. The parish consists mainly of a section	Groome
  Panhope	Orkney	Scapa Flow; penetrates 1½ mile west-south-westward, with a mean breadth of from 7 to 2 furlongs; forms	Groome
  Pentland Firth	Caithness Orkney	Scapa Flow. Three and a half miles WNW of Duncansbay Head is the island of Stroma, included in the county	Groome
  Pomona or Mainland	Orkney	Scapa Flow, and Hoy Sound from Burray, South Ronaldshay, Flotta, Hoy, and some smaller islands. Its utmost length, from E to W, is 24¼ miles	Groome
  Scapa Bay	Orkney	Scapa Bay , a NE. inlet of Scapa Flow, Orkney; is 1½ mile across at entrance, and penetrates 2½ miles	Bartholomew
  Scapa Flow	Orkney	Scapa Flow from the SW, and through the Sound of Hoy, flows with rapidity akin to its current through the Pentland	Groome
  Scapa Flow	Orkney	Scapa Flow , a large expanse of sea, in the S. parts of Orkney; extends N. and S. 15 miles from	Bartholomew
  Swona	Orkney	Scapa-Flow from the Pentland Firth, 2¼ miles W by S of Barth Head in South Ronaldshay island, and 3¾ miles	Groome
  Thurso	Caithness	flows first NE, and then N, through the centre of the parish of Halkirk, and thereafter near the centre of the parish of Thurso to the sea at the S side of Thurso Bay. The whole length of the course is about 27 miles, of which 19½ are in Halkirk and 7½ in Thurso. The hollow through which it flows in the upper part of its course from SW to NE is called Strath More, and near the centre of it is Loch More. At the point where the stream turns N it receives from Strath Bheag	Groome

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