Churchill Barriers

Greetings Space Cadets, The Churchill Barriers are a series of four causeways in the Orkney Islands, United Kingdom, with a total length of 1.5 miles (2.3 km). They link the Orkney Mainland in the north to the island of South Ronaldsay via Burray and the two smaller islands of Lamb Holm and Glimps Holm.In 14 October 1939, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk at her moorings within the natural harbour of Scapa Flow in a night-time attack by the German U-boat U-47 under the command of Günther Prien.The barriers were built in the 1940s primarily as naval defences to protect the anchorage at Scapa Flow, but now serve as road links, carrying the A961 road from Kirkwall to Burwick.The barriers are numbered from north to south. In 2016, Historic Environment Scotland designated barriers 3 and 4 as Category A listed buildings.

Amazing wartime construction to protect the fleet in Scapa Flow. Built by Italian prisoners of war. Visit the Italian Chapel nearby, if you can.

Good place to visit. Interesting history.

Really interesting bridge connecting the small Orkney Islands! There is a nearby airbase so you get to see planes take off occasionally :)

Interesting structures and the reasons and story of their making intimately links with the Italian Chapel on Lambs Holm. For the history and getting able to identify the sunken blockships whose remains can still be seen go to the Fossil Museum for a wealth of information on them, Scapa Flow and the Chapel.

Beautiful shipwrecks and a nice beach you can walk along

L'endroit n'est pas très spectaculaire. En revanche il est chargé d'histoire. Le passage du sous-marin allemand qui a coulé des bateaux britanniques s'est par cet endroit.On peut encore observer des épaves coulées pour compliquer la navigation pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale.Ces épaves n'ont pas empêché le sous-marin allemand de passer.

Had a chance to scuba dive these, interesting history.

Amazing historic place

Just breathtaking to see and very humbling to think of what happened back in those days