Tour Scotland Photograph St Margaret's Hope Orkney Islands

Tour Scotland photograph St Margaret's Hope, South Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland. St Margaret's Hope, known locally as The Hope is situated off Water Sound at the head of a sheltered bay on the northern coast of the island of South Ronaldsay, it is connected to the Orkney Mainland by the A961 road across the Churchill Barriers. The Hope is South Ronaldsay's main village, and is named either after Margaret, Maid of Norway, who may have died there, or St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland, the wife of King Malcolm III.



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