Welcome to the Westray Heritage Centre

November and December What's On are now available for download. Go to What's On panel on the left to access the pages.

To welcome in New Year 2010 we thought we would show you a picture of the garden behind the heritage centre, taken summer 2009.  Thanks to a lot of hard work the gardens in 2009 looked magnificent in the summer sunshine. Let's hope 2010 brings us many visitors along with the sun.

The Tuquoy Whale

Two years ago a whale was washed up on the shores of Tuquoy Bay. Thanks to Neil Geddes-Ward who was on hand to take a short video, we can now see what the whale looked like. After it beached and died on the sands, the weather and wildlife stripped the carcase clean and now we have the bones on view in the garden of the Heritage Centre for all to see. Go to the Tuquoy Whale section in the navigation pane on the left, or click HERE to go to the page.

 The UF Kirk in Westray has now closed and to commemorate the history of the building and its congregation, the Westray Heritage Trust has commissioned a book. Sized B5 ( a little larger than A5) and 120 pages including 8 pages in colour, it is on sale now. If you would like to purchase a copy, please email us: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The price is £12 plus £2 postage and packing.

Thank you for visiting our web site, we hope you enjoy the experience. There is lots of information here, and we are continually updating the site in order to keep everybody informed.

Use the menu bar to the left to navigate your way around.

The milestones section is now in the navigation panel to the left. At the moment there is only one page with a map showing the plotted milestones, but more pages will be added in January. The long grass in summer and now snow in winter is hampering the update process, but we are getting there slowly.

The Noltland Castle section will be increased very soon.

We hope to have an online sales area in place for the coming winter season, so do please keep returning to us.

We are extremely grateful for the generosity, help and advice given to us by the Team at Historic Scotland and we look forward to working with them in the coming years.

The Heritage Centre is closed for the winter.

Please email us if you have any questions about Westray's heritage and we will answer you as accurately as we can.

We are open from May to September

Sunday 1:30 –5:30pm,

Monday 11:30 – 5:00pm

Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 1200 and 2:00 – 5:00pm.

Admission charges: Adults –  £2.50, Concessions – £2.00, Children and students – 50p

Brough House Open Day Sunday 6th September 2009 Westray Heritage Trust is very grateful to Mark Fresson for giving us the opportunity to organise the Open Day at Brough on Sunday 6th September 2009.

The donations that were received on the day will be specifically used to pay for items for future exhibitions e.g. photo frames, information boards, appropriate children’s activities. Our finances are diminished after two years of heavy spending so any donations will be gratefylly received, please email us if you wish to donate to help Westray Heritage Centre.