Burray

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The Isle of Burray is one of the two main islands (the other being South Ronaldsay) that are connected to the Orkney Mainland by the Churchill Barriers - causeways built in the early 1940s following the sinking of the Royal Oak by a U-boat that managed to navigate through the narrows into Scapa Flow, an important Naval Base.

During the war a POW camp was set up housing mostly Italian POWs. They created a chapel out of an army Nissen Hut and this is now one of the most popular attractions in Orkney. Orkney is endowed with a large number of prehistoric sites and Burray has its own Fossil and Vintage Centre in Northtown.

Burray is now a farming community with a small knitting cottage industry and also very popular tourist destination.