Orkney Heritage Society

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The Orkney Heritage Society, Orkney, Scotland, is a nonprofit organisation founded in 1967.

It promotes "the beauty, history and character of Orkney" as well as "high standards of architecture and planning" in Orkney. It organizes conferences and grants awards and prizes for writing, historical and architectural projects. It publishes New Orkney Antiquarian Journal as well as a newsletter and other publications.

Its founder members were:

• Ernest Marwick

[edit] See also

• Orkney dialect
• Orkney lamb
• Orkney Single Malts
• Orkney vole

[edit] External links

• Official site.
• Orkney Archaeological Trust website
• Orkney Iron Age Conference proceedings