WALKS EIGHT WALKS AROUND THE FLOW · AROUND TAKE THESE TRAILS TO ENJOY A SPECIAL LANDSCAPE THE FLOW RICH IN WILDLIFE AND HISTORY AYRE TO CANTICK HEAD WHAT SHOULD I REMEMBER? The walk is quite long and remote in places, with uneven ground and damp area. Much of the walk runs along steep cliffs, with gloups also being striking hazards to www.outdooraccess-scotland.com • Keep dogs under control at all times • Wear suitable footwear and be prepared for variable weather • Let someone know your route and when you will return • Avoid disturbing livestock or crops • Leave gates as you found them South Walls • Respect wildlife and take special care in the breeding season • Bring your litter away with you - leave only footprints, take only memories! EUROPE & SCOTLNC) PARTNERSHIP Europe.anReglonat fui'ld SCHEME LOTTERY FUN>EO ORKNEY lnvestinginyo..-nrture lsuNosCCKJNC:11. WHERE IS IT? WHAT WILL I SEE? This walk runs along the dramatic southern coast of South Walls passing • Many natural arches, caves, geos (narrow cliff-lined bays), and gloups wonderful geological features, interesting archaeological remains and (inland ravines formed by collapsed sea caves) amazing wildlife. • The Scottish Wildlife Trust nature reserve at Hill of White Hamars, The walk is about 5 miles (8km) long with flowers including the rare Scottish primrose, perhaps better known from the car park by The Ayre, along as Primula scotica AND the south coast and around Cantick • The remains of a broch at Hesti Geo and Neolithic tombs at Cantick Head MEADOW BROWN BUTHERFLY Head and back to the car park at NORTHERN MARSH ORCHID • Seabirds nesting on the cliffs include fulmars, shags, guillemots and Osmundwall. An extra 3 miles (5km) razorbills. This is also one of the best areas in Orkney for butterflies with along quiet roads turns the walk into many meadow browns and common blues in good weather in late summer. SWT. a circuit. Reserve • Cantick Head Lighthouse, completed in 1858- one of dozens of Natural arch ft lighthouses built by the Stevenson family around Britain's northern coasts + From the Osmundwall car park, a path N Gloup • • The graveyard at Osmondwall has a poignant monument to the provides a short-cut between the The name South Walls is a corruption of Sooth Waas, which means the southern voes. of the lifeboat, lost a March 1969 cliffs and the road, enabling less time crew Longhope in tragic accident in features the history of the lifeboat crews and boats Although connected to the rest of Hoy and Walls by a tidal gravel bar known as the Ayre, to be spent on the walk if necessary while attempting to rescue the crew of a wrecked cargo boat. including the tragic loss of the boat and crew in 1969. it was a separate community until 1912 when a permanent causeway and road link was • Kirk Hope was also the site of the conversion of Earl Sigurd in built over the Ayre. Despite the road link, South Walls still has a distinct identity. 995 AD, as recorded in the Orkneyinga Saga, and commemorated by a fine carved stone bench by the graveyard OKM DISTANCE) Mllll KM GRADE MODrnAH DURATION 3- HOU \ (ON[ WM) oum GRHN Hlll CHAMBmD 10MB (AN1ICK HEAD LIGH1HOUH WHERE IS IT? WHAT WILL I SEE? This walk runs along the dramatic southern coast of South Walls passing • Many natural arches, caves, geos (narrow cliff-lined bays), and gloups wonderful geological features, interesting archaeological remains and (inland ravines formed by collapsed sea caves) amazing wildlife. • The Scottish Wildlife Trust nature reserve at Hill of White Hamars, The walk is about 5 miles (8km) long with flowers including the rare Scottish primrose, perhaps better known from the car park by The Ayre, along as Primula scotica SW T the south coast and around Cantick • The remains of a broch at Hesti Geo and Neolithic tombs at Cantick Head Reserve AND M[ADOW BROWN BUTHRFLY Head and back to the car park at NORTH[RN MARIH ORCHID • Seabirds nesting on the cliffs include fulmars, shags, guillemots and Osmundwall. An extra 3 miles (5km) razorbills. This is also one of the best areas in Orkney for butterflies with SWT Reserve along quiet roads turns the walk into many meadow browns and common blues in good weather in late summer. a circuit. Natural arches • Cantick Head Lighthouse, completed in 1858- one of dozens of lighthouses built by the Stevenson family around Britain's northern coasts + From the Osmundwall car park, a path N Gloup • • The graveyard at Osmondwall has a poignant monument to the provides a short-cut between the The name South Walls is a corruption of Sooth Waas, which means the southern voes. of the lifeboat, lost a March 1969 cliffs and the road, enabling less time crew Longhope in tragic accident in features the history of the lifeboat crews and boats Although connected to the rest of Hoy and Walls by a tidal gravel bar known as the Ayre, to be spent on the walk if necessary while attempting to rescue the crew of a wrecked cargo boat. including the tragic loss of the boat and crew in 1969. it was a separate community until 1912 when a permanent causeway and road link was • Kirk Hope was also the site of the conversion of Earl Sigurd in built over the Ayre. Despite the road link, South Walls still has a distinct identity. 995 AD, as recorded in the Orkneyinga Saga, and commemorated by a fine carved stone bench by the graveyard OKM D I S T A N C E 5 M I L E S 8KM GRADE MODERATE DURATION 3-4HOURS (ONE WAY ) OUTER GREEN HILL CHAMBER TOMB CANTICK HEAD LIGH1HOUSE WALKS EIGHT WALKS AROUND THE FLOW · ..- WALKS5 TAKE THESE TRAILS TO ENJOY A SPECIAL LANDSCAPE . , '\ AROUND I ifj ©- AROUND THE FLOW RICH IN WILDLIFE AND HISTORY THE FLOW AYRE TO CANTICK HEAD WHAT SHOULD I REMEMBER? The walk is quite long and remote in places, with uneven ground and damp area. Much of the walk runs along steep cliffs, with gloups also being striking hazards to www.outdooraccess-scotland.com • Keep dogs under control at all times • Wear suitable footwear and be prepared for variable weather - • Let someone know your route and when you .s will return 1-.-,,1-.;- • Avoid disturbing livestock or crops • Leave gates as you found them -2 South Walls • Respect wildlife and take special care in the breeding season - • Bring your litter away with you - leave only footprints, take only memories! EUROPE & SCOT\AND PARTNERSHIP Europe.anReglonatDM!IOpmttltfund SCHEME LOTTERY Fl,ff)EO ORKNEY lnvestinginyournrture lsuNosCOONCu. .