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Orkneyjar - The History of Stromness (1170 words) |
 | By 1590 Stromness had obviously established itself as a seaport as an inn was built on the eastern shore of Hamnavoe to cater for visiting ships. |
| Stromness' real development as a major town is owed primarily to a series of wars between Britain and France. |
| Stromness' long history of catering for visiting ships had by this time developed into fully fledged boat building with four boatyards in operation around the town. |
| Stromness Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland (899 words) |
| Stromness was still a very small village of just 13 houses when in 1670 it was chosen by the Hudson's Bay Company as the first and last port of call for their ships en route to and from Canada. |
| Stromness acquired a legal distillery in 1817 (it had earlier had a number of illegal ones), though what was by then called the Man o' Hoy Distillery only survived until 1927. |
| The harbour is also the terminal for the passenger-only ferry that connects Stromness with Graemsay and the north end of Hoy. |
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