Dounby

Dounby
The Smithfield Hotel stands at the crossroads where the A986 and B9057 meet
Dounby Dounby shown within Orkney
OS grid reference	HY290207
Civil parish	Birsay
Council area	Orkney Islands
Lieutenancy area	Orkney Islands
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
List of places UK Scotland

Coordinates: 59°04′05″N 3°13′52″W / 59.068°N 3.231°W / 59.068; -3.231

Dounby (UK /ˈduːnbiː/) is a village on Mainland in Orkney, in the north of Scotland.

Dounby village is situated at the crossroads of what are now the A986 and B9057,^[1]^[2] and has grown close to the meeting point of the three parishes of Sandwick, Birsay and Harray (mainly lying in Sandwick). It features a Co-operative Food store,^[3] a doctor's surgery, pharmacy, care home, pub, post office, hairdressers, church and a community school that serve Birsay, Dounby, Harray, Sandwick, Stenness, and Twatt.

The West Mainland Agricultural Show (commonly called the Dounby Show) occurs here every August on the Thursday before the Orkney County Show The County show is always the 2nd Saturday in August.

References

↑ "A986". Sabre. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
↑ "B9057". Sabre. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
↑ "Co Op Food in Dounby". StoreLocate.co.uk. Retrieved 1 January 2015.

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Orkney

List of Orkney islands

Inhabited islands	Mainland Auskerry Burray Eday Egilsay Flotta Gairsay Graemsay Holm of Grimbister Hoy Inner Holm North Ronaldsay Papa Stronsay Papa Westray Rousay Sanday Shapinsay South Ronaldsay South Walls Stronsay Westray Wyre

Other islands	Eynhallow Helliar Holm Lamb Holm Switha Swona North West islands North East islands South West islands South East islands

Towns and villages	Kirkwall Balfour Dounby Finstown Houton Longhope Lyness Pierowall St Margaret's Hope Stromness Whitehall

Mainland parishes	Birsay Deerness Evie Firth Harray Holm Kirkwall Orphir Rendall St Andrews St Ola Sandwick Stenness Stromness

Topics	Prehistory History Geology Scapa Flow

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