A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Sanday, a small island in the Hebridean parish of Small Isles, Argyllshire, lying on the S side of the eastern extremity of Canna, of which it may be viewed as constituting a portion, the two being united at low water by a beach of shell sand. It extends 1¾ mile east-by-southward, has a maximum breadth of 5 furlongs and an area of 5772/3 acres, and is distant 21/8 miles from Rum. Its surface is low at the side towards Canna, but rises at its south-western extremity to 192 and at its eastern to 131 feet above sea-level, terminating in abrupt cliffs, which are skirted with detached high masses of rock. See Dun-na-Feulan. Pop. (1871) 58, (1 881) 62.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a small island" (ADL Feature Type: "islands") |
| Administrative units: | Argyll ScoCnty |
| Place: | Sanday |
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