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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "ORPHIR":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Cairston	Orkney	Orphir, Sandwick, and Walls and Flotta. Pop. (1871) 10,465, (1881) 10,414, of whom 1771 were communicants of the Church	Groome
  Carlin Skerry	Orkney	shore of Pomona, in the vicinity of Orphir church, and 9½ miles ESE of the W entrance of Hoy Mouth.	Groome
  Carlin Skerry, or Barrel of Butter	Orkney	Carlin Skerry , or Barrel of Butter , insular rock, 1¼ mile SE. of Orphir church, Pomona isl., S. Orkney.	Bartholomew
  Cava	Orkney	Cava , isl. (1 by ¼ m.) with ruined chapel, Orphir par., Orkney, 2 miles S. of Houston Head, Pomona, pop. 25.	Bartholomew
  Cava	Orkney	Orphir parish, Orkney, 2 miles S of Houston Head in Pomona. It measures 1 by ¼ mile, and has a ruined	Groome
  Claistron	Orkney	Orphir parish, Orkney, on the coast, 15 miles WSW of Kirkwall. It was the residence of the late Lord Armadale	Groome
  Clestron	Orkney	Clestron , seat, sound, and skerries, in W. of Orphir par., SW. Pomona isl., Orkney, 15 m. SW. of Kirkwall.	Bartholomew
  Firth	Orkney	Orphir and Stenness, and W by Harray. It includes the islets of Damsay and Grimbister Holm; contains Finstown village; and is united	Groome
  Houton	Orkney	Orphir par., Orkney, on Houton Bay, 9 miles SW. of Kirkwall; at the mouth of the bay is an island	Bartholomew
  Houton	Orkney	Orphir parish, Orkney, at the south-western extremity of Pomona, 5 miles SE of Stromness. The headland rises to the height	Groome
  Kirbister, Loch of	Orkney	Kirbister, Loch of , Orphir par., Orkney.	Bartholomew
  Kirkwall	Orkney	Orphir and Firth parishes. Its outline is highly irregular, the N being deeply indented by the Bay of Kirkwall and the Bay of Carness	Groome
  Orkney	Orkney	Orphir parish; carex fulva var. sterilis, also in Orphir; ruppia spiralis, in the Loch of Stenness; and ruppia rostellata var. nana	Groome
  Orphir	Orkney	Orphir , par. and vil., in S. of Pomona, Orkney - par. (including Cava island), 12,762 ac., pop. 1015; vil., on S. coast	Bartholomew
  Orphir	Orkney	Orphir ( yarpha, ` fibrous peat '), a village and a parish in the S of Orkney. The village stands on the southern	Groome
  Pomona or Mainland	Orkney	Orphir, Kirkwall, St Andrews, Deerness, and Holm; but Birsay and Harray, Evie and Rendall, Firth and Stenness, and St Andrews	Groome
  Stenness	Orkney	Orphir, W by the Bay of Ireland, NW by the Loch of Stenness and Sandwick, N by Harray, and NW by Firth	Groome

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