Toab is a village on the
Orkney Mainland
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 ...
, situated in the East Mainland, off the
A960 road, at the head of Deer Sound.
St Andrews Primary School is located in Toab, and serves the parishes of
Holm
Holm may refer to:
Places
* Holm (island), the name of several islands
* Holm, Nordfriesland, Germany
* Holm, Pinneberg, Germany
* Holm (Flensburg), Flensburg, Germany
* Holm, Nordland, a village in Bindal Municipality in Nordland county ...
,
St Andrews
St Andrews (; ; , pronounced ʰʲɪʎˈrˠiː.ɪɲ is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a recorded population of 16,800 , making it Fife's fourth-largest settleme ...
, and
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 ...
. It is believed the name derives from the
Norse word Tollhóp, meaning a place where visiting ships had to pay a toll.
People from Toab are known as ‘Toaboggans’, although this term is rarely used.
The districts of Toab and nearby
Tankerness
Tankerness is a district in the St Andrews parish in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland.Wenham, Shiela "The East Mainland" in Omand (2003) p. 198 Essentially a peninsula, it is about south-east of Kirkwall and east of Kirkwall Airport. are often mistakenly referred to as parishes, though they both come under the civil parish of St Andrews.
See also
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Mine Howe
Mine Howe is an Iron Age subterranean man-made chamber dug 6 meters (20 feet) deep inside a large mound. It is located in the Tankerness area of Orkney, Scotland, about 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Kirkwall, the capital of Orkney. The origin of ...
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Villages on Mainland, Orkney
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