Hoxa, Orkney

Hoxa
The site of The Howe of Hoxa broch (at left)
Hoxa Hoxa shown within Orkney
OS grid reference	HY423935
Civil parish	South Ronaldsay and Burray
Council area	Orkney
Lieutenancy area	Orkney
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ORKNEY
Postcode district	KW17
Dialling code	01856
Police	Scottish
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
EU Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	Orkney and Shetland
Scottish Parliament	Orkney
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Hoxa Head Lighthouse
Hoxa Head concrete towers and gun emplacements sit by the modern lighthouse in the background
Orkney
Coordinates	58°49′19″N 3°02′05″W / 58.821878°N 3.034716°W / 58.821878; -3.034716
Year first constructed	1901 (first)
Year first lit	1996 (current)
Automated	1996
Deactivated	1996 (first)
Foundation	reinforced concrete
Construction	metal skeletal tower
Tower shape	square parallelepiped tower covered by aluminium panels with balcony and light on the top
Markings / pattern	white tower
Height	7 metres (23 ft)
Focal height	15 metres (49 ft)
Light source	solar power
Characteristic	Fl WR 3s.
Admiralty number	A3610
NGA number	3100
ARLHS number	SCO-103
Managing agent	Northern Lighthouse Board^[1]

Hoxa is a small settlement on the island of South Ronaldsay in the Orkney Islands north of mainland Scotland. Hoxa is located 1 ¹⁄₄ miles (2.0 km) west of St Margaret's Hope^[2] at the end of the B9043 road.^[3]

Thorfinn Turf-Einarsson the 10th century Norse Earl of Orkney (aka Thorfinn Skullsplitter) may be buried at the site of The Howe broch just north of Hoxa.^[4]

References

↑ Hoxa Head The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 27 May 2016
↑ "Hoxa". Gazetteer of Scotland. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
↑ Ordnance Survey. Get-a-map (Map). 1:25,000. Leisure. Ordinance Survey. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
↑ Wenham, Sheena "The South Isles" in Omand, Donald (ed.) (2003) The Orkney Book. Edinburgh. Birlinn. ISBN 1-84158-254-9 pp. 211-12

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Lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board

Scotland (except principal island groups)	Ailsa Craig Ardnamurchan Bass Rock Bell Rock Buchan Ness Cape Wrath Chanonry Corsewall Covesea Skerries Crammag Head Davaar Duncansby Head Dunnet Head Fidra Fife Ness Girdle Ness Holy Island (Outer) Inchkeith Isle of May Kinnaird Head Mull of Galloway Mull of Kintyre North Rona Noss Head Pladda Rattray Head Rubh Re St Abbs Head Sanda Scurdie Ness Stoer Head Strathy Point Stroma Sule Skerry Tarbat Ness Turnberry Minor lights

The Hebrides	Barra Head Butt of Lewis Dubh Artach Eilean Glas Flannan Islands Haskeir Hyskeir Lismore Monach Neist Point Ornsay Rinns of Islay Rona Ruvaal Scarinish Skerryvore Tiumpan Head Ushenish Minor lights

Orkney	Auskerry Brough of Birsay Cantick Head Copinsay Hoy Sound (High) Hoy Sound (Low) North Ronaldsay Noup Head Pentland Skerries Start Point Tor Ness Minor lights

Shetland	Bressay Eshaness Fair Isle North Fair Isle South Firths Voe Foula Hoo Stack Muckle Flugga Out Skerries Point of Fethaland Sumburgh Head Ve Skerries Minor lights

Isle of Man	Chicken Rock Douglas Head Langness (minor light) Maughold Head Point of Ayre Thousla Rock (minor light)

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