St Andrews is a parish on

Mainland, Orkney The Mainland, also known as Pomona, is the main island of Orkney, Scotland. Both of Orkney's burghs, Kirkwall and Stromness, lie on the island, which is also the heart of Orkney's ferry and air connections. Seventy-five per cent of Orkney's popu ...

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. It is located east of the town of

Kirkwall Kirkwall (, , or ; ) is the largest town in Orkney, an archipelago to the north of mainland Scotland. First mentioned in the ''Orkneyinga saga'', it is today the location of the headquarters of the Orkney Islands Council and a transport hub wi ...

and the parish of

St Ola St Ola is a parish on Mainland, Orkney. It is in the centre of the island, east of the parish Firth and north of Holm. It contains the capital and largest town of the Orkney archipelago, Kirkwall Kirkwall (, , or ; ) is the largest town i ...

and lies north of

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and west of

Deerness Deerness (, , Old Norse: ''Dyrnes'') is a ''quoad sacra'' parish (i.e. one created and functioning for ecclesiastical purposes only) and peninsula in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It is about south east of Kirkwall. Deerness forms a part of th ...

."St Andrews"
''The Orcadian''. Retrieved 19 April 2008. The settlements of Tankerness, Toab and Foubister are in the parish, as is Kirkwall Airport. Saint Andrews is on the east side of Mainland,Wilson, Rev. John ''The Gazetteer of Scotland'' (Edinburgh, 1882) Published by W. & A.K. Johnstone and extends from the eastern boundary of Kirkwall parish to the sea, and includes the island of Kirkholm. The land is mostly flat, but has diversities of surface, and rises nowhere higher than 350 ft. The coast includes both sandy beach and precipitous rock, and has a large sea cavern.

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Parishes of Orkney Mainland, Orkney {{Orkney-geo-stub