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ANDREWS (ST.), parish on east side of Pomona, Orkney. It extends from the eastern boundary of Kirkwall parish to the sea, includes the islands of Copinshay and Kirkholm, and has an area of about 13 square miles. Post town, Kirkwall. Keal property in 1880-81, 2063. Pop. 1695. The land is mostly flat, but has diversities of surface, and rises nowhere higher than about 350 feet. The coast includes both sandy beach and precipitous rock, and has a large sea cavern. The churches are Established and Free. St. Andrews and Deerness parishes are in some respects united, and they have 3 new public schools for 290 scholars.

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