North Ronaldsay Lighthouse - Tallest land-based lighthouse in the UK
Billy Muir, the former lighthouse keeper of North Ronaldsay Lighthouse, gives a tour of the lighthouse on a glorious June 20th day in 2012. Among the visitors is a couple from Yorkshire who berthed their yacht off Orkney's most northerly island for the day.
Climbing North Ronaldsay Lighthouse the highest land-based lighthouse in the UK
On June 20th, 2012, my son, Matthew, and I climbed the highest land-based lighthouse in the UK with former Lighthouse keeper Billy Muir, of the North Ronaldsay Trust, as our guide.
Lighthouse Tour of North Ronaldsay.wmv
A tour of North Ronaldsay Lighthouse and the island of North Ronaldsay. See the island page at lovescottishislands.com
Plans for the future in North Ronaldsay
It has been already been a busy summer for the residents of Orkney's most northerly community in North Ronaldsay.
The island's Development Trust has launched a search for a full-time Sheep Dyke Warden and a special conference has been held to explore current and future development plans. Next up is the annual North Ronaldsay Sheep Festival, aimed at promoting and preserving the island's unique flock of seaweed-eating sheep.
It's hoped these initiatives will help attract families to move to North Ronaldsay, bringing new life to this special community.
Take a look at our video focusing on the challenges faced by the islanders, and how they're tackling the issues head on.
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CountryFile visits North Ronaldsay 2016
A look at the plight of the North Ronaldsay sheep and the storm damage done to the island's historic sheepdyke.
Old Photographs North Ronaldsay Orkney Islands Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of North Ronaldsay, the northernmost island in the archipelago of the Orkney Islands. Dennis Head, in the northeast of the island, is home to an historic lighthouse known as the Old Beacon. The light was first established in 1789 by Thomas Smith. It was to be the first of many island lighthouses for Smith, who had previously worked on the lights at Kinnaird Head and Mull of Kintyre. Smith received assistance with the North Ronaldsay light from Ezekiel Walker and from his stepson Robert Stevenson. In 1809 with the construction of other nearby lighthouses it was decided that the North Ronaldsay light was no longer required and it was extinguished. Hollandstoun church is a rectangular plan rubble built church with clash harling. The south elevation features softwood windows, whilst a single storey vestry with gablehead stack projects from the west gable. The east gable features an off centre square crenellated belltower in 3 stages. Each stage features a single rectangular window, with a louvred opening to the bell. The steeply pitched roof is in local slate pegged to battens. Holland House was the Laird's house, built in the middle of the 18th century for James Traill, an Edinburgh lawyer, who purchased the island in 1727. The house was extended to the south in 1873 and the west in 1905, with the addition of a castellated tower. The house remains in the hands of his direct descendants. Three cannon, which were retrieved from the wreck of the Crown Prince in 1744, stand facing the sea. The adjacent walled garden provides the only significant concentration of trees and shrubs on the island.
Flying from North Ronaldsay to Kirkwall
Amazing: Top 10 Tallest Lighthouses in the UK
Top 10 Tallest Lighthouses in the UK
1 – Bishop Rock, Scilly Isles (Approximate Height: 161 ft)
2 – Eddystone, English Channel (Approximate Height: 160 ft)
3 – Skerryvore, Anglesey (Approximate Height: 157 ft)
4 – Chicken Rock, Calf of Man (Approximate Height: 144 ft)
5 – Beachy Head, East Sussex (Approximate Height: 141 ft)
6 – Dungeness, Kent (Approximate Height: 141 ft)
7 – North Ronaldsay, Orkney (Approximate Height:138 ft)
8 – The Smalls, Dyfed (Approximate Height: 135 ft)
9 – Tarbat Ness, Ross and Cromarty (Approximate Height: 135 ft)
10 – Portland, Dorset (Approximate Height: 134 ft)
North Ronaldsay Twin Lambs - 7 hours old!
Lyssa our North Ronaldsay sheep was the first sheep to lamb at LambWatch HQ in 2018. Read more at
North Ronaldsay sheep, waiting for dinner
Beechengrove Flock of rare breed North Ronaldsay sheep, the ladies are eager for their dinner.
If you like this then like the flock page on Facebook, just look for Beechengrove Flock.
Lighthouse Observatory (1963)
Portland Bill, Dorset.
M/S of birds in a hedgerow.
A Volkswagen van pulls up in front of the entrance to the lighthouse. Tilt up lighthouse - good shot!
Interior. C/U of feet going up the lighthouse stairs. A man and woman, Dr. and Mrs. Ash, emerge onto a balcony at the top of the lighthouse and look through a telescope.
Inside the lighthouse, a woman makes her bed and goes over to a dressing table. The lighthouse no longer guides ships; it is a bird observatory with all the comforts of home, the Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre.
L/S, from the lighthouse top, of men beating hedges covered by chicken wire to frighten the birds out. M/S of man inside the chicken wire cage encouraging a bird into a trap. He takes the bird, a goldfinch, out of the trap and examines its wings. Another man measures a chaffinch's wings before releasing it.
The ornithologists featured are named in the paperwork as Dr. and Mrs. Godfrey and Tasy Landesdown.
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Vaternish Lighthouse
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Blade Shearing Sheep in North Ronaldsay 2016
Short trip to North Ronaldsay to shear the seaweed eating sheep.
Most remote Golf Course in Scotland - Fair Isle Lighthouse Keepe
Most remote Golf Course in Scotland - Fair Isle Lighthouse Keepers Golf Course
Scotland Golf North Ronaldsay Orkney
Golf on the isle of North Ronaldsay Orkney, Scotland, the real home of golf. An intrepid video of the 9 hole links lairds golf course... Amazing footage.
360: Britain's most remote job?
Ian Lycett has one of the most remote jobs in the British Isles.
The wildlife lover from Wolverhampton is the estate warden on the Calf of Man - a tiny and incredibly beautiful island in the Irish Sea.
Along with an ornithology warden the island has a population of two.
In severe weather the remote bird observatory can be cut off for weeks at a time with supplies needing to be delivered by boat and when tides allow.
This film aims to provide an immersive insight into his life on the island as his nine months as estate manager draw to a close.
Filmed and produced by Mark Edwards and Douglas Marshall.
OAP Who Has 10 Different Jobs
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Meet the pensioner almost single-handedly keeping a remote Scottish island’s economy afloat by holding down TEN different jobs.
Firefighter, lighthouse keeper, shepherd and air-traffic controller are just some of the titles that North Ronaldsay native Billy Muir has racked up over the years.
Despite all the work he does on the tiny island in Orkney, which boasts a population of just 50, the modest OAP claims he doesn’t do a lot.
He shrugged: “I’m not doing as much now as I used to – I’ve scaled back a tremendous amount.”
Take off, North Ronaldsay
A short video showing the take off from North Ronaldsay on a flight to Kirkwall.
Walrus spotted off the north coast of Scotland
A Walrus is sighted on a beach in North Ronaldsay, Orkney, on Monday, coming further south than its species has in 20 years. Residents journey to the beach for the rare sighting in an area which is better known as a birdwatching paradise. Reports say the walrus later returned to sea
It All Begins At Sumburgh Head Lighthouse