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Stroma

Pentland Firth, Caithness

An island in some of the world's fiercest tides, left by its last families in 1962.

Stroma sits in the Pentland Firth between Caithness and Orkney, surrounded by some of the most powerful tidal races in the world. Several hundred people once lived here, fishing and farming.

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When
Abandoned 1962
Where
58.6800, -3.1200
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

Visible from John o' Groats. Occasional boat trips run around the island.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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