Museum: Sanday Heritage Centre

The Heritage Centre is situated in Lady Village in the formal Temperance Hall and was opened in May 2014. The main areas of display are Natural History, (nature on land, links and shore), Archaeology, (Sanday ‘archaeologically has the best landscape…

Quoyness chambered cairn is to be found on the Elsness peninsula and is approximately 5000 years old. The cairn is four metres high and has six chambers. The remains of 10 adults and five children were found in the tomb along with two curiously…

Down at Stove in the south end of the island there is the ruinous remains of a large model farm. This was one of the first farms here, in the 19th Century, to be fully mechanised. Unfortunately a large part of the steading was destroyed by fire…