Balfour Castle

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Balfour Castle
Balfour Castle
Elwick. Looking south west across the square to Balfour Castle in the distance.
Elwick. Looking south west across the square to Balfour Castle in the distance.

Balfour Castle is an historic building on the southwest of Shapinsay, Orkney Islands.[1] Although built around an older structure dating at least from the 1700s, the present castle is considered a work of Colonel David Balfour erected in the year 1847.

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  1. ^ J. Gunn, Orkney, the Magnetic North, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Edinburgh (1932)
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