St Andrews, Orkney

St Andrews is a parish on Mainland, Orkney in Scotland.

It is located east of the town of Kirkwall and the parish of St Ola and lies north of Holm and west of Deerness.

[1] The settlements of Tankerness, Toab and Foubister are in the parish, as is Kirkwall Airport.

Saint Andrews is on the east side of Mainland,[2] and extends from the eastern boundary of Kirkwall parish to the sea, and includes the island of Kirkholm.

[2] The land is mostly flat, but has diversities of surface, and rises nowhere higher than 350 ft.[2] The coast includes both sandy beach and precipitous rock, and has a large sea cavern.