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Burray

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Burray

One of the Orkney Islands, Scotland, covering an area 4 km/2.5 mi long and 3 km/2 mi wide; population (2001) 360. It lies between South Ronaldsay and Mainland, the three islands being linked by the Orkney Causeway (or Churchill Barrier), built in World War II to enclose the eastern end of Scapa Flow. Agriculture is the main activity.

In 1943 a chapel was created from a Nissen hut by Italian prisoners of war on Lambholm, an island on the causeway between Burray and Mainland. This Italian Chapel, which has an unusual trompe l'oeil (‘eye-deceiving’) interior, was restored in 1960 and is in regular use.
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His smiddy is only a mile from the Burray ferry terminal, and Willie said: 'I'm dead right for runaway marriages.
Smith's island rival to Gretna by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Orkney duo Biz Ivol, 52, from South Ronaldsay, and Bill Reeve, from Burray, have joined Leeds campaigner Clare Hodges, 43, in the plan to launch the leaflet about how to grow the drug from seeds and where to get it.
MS victims in drug bid by Tait, James / The Mirror (London, England)
Three additional barriers connect Burray and South Ronaldsay to the mainland.
War barrier cracking up by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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