Yorkshire Philosophical Society

Event Information

A YPS visit to Orkney has been arranged, starting Friday 7 June to see the amazing Neolithic remains there.  Visits will be made to many sites including the World Heritage Sites of Skarra Brae village, and Maes Howe chambered mound.  Visits to the various sites and the finds discovered therein will show the extent of the civilisation that existed many years before Stonehenge was built, and the communications links which these peoples had with places far away.

The tour will be based at the Kirkwall hotel for 3 nights (4 days) with the option of staying overnight in Glasgow on the return (making it a 5 days 4 nights tour) to see some of the many attractions there.  Travel out will be by train to Edinburgh and plane from there to Kirkwall.  Movement on Orkney will be by coach.  The return journey will be via Glasgow, not Edinburgh.

The cost of the 4-day, 3 night trip will be £695

Final details and booking form are now available  – please  send  letter with S.A.E. to Alan Owen, (alowen2000@yahoo.co.uk), at the Lodge, or pick them up during Frances’ working hours (Monday and Wednesday, and Friday mornings, but she is taking annual leave from 18th to 22nd March)