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Extract from the Stromness Travel Guides:
STROMNESS
has to be one of the most enchanting ports at which to arrive by boat, its picturesque waterfront a procession of tiny sandstone jetties and slate roofs nestling below the green hill of Brinkies Brae. Its natural sheltered harbour (known as Hamnavoe) must have been used in Viking times, but the town itself only really took off in the eighteenth century. At that time, European conflicts made it safer for ships heading across the Atlantic to travel around the north of Scotland rather than through the English Channel. By 1842, Stromness boasted forty or so pubs; then the herring boom brought large numbers of small boats to the town, a...
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