Balfour Castle

country house on Shapinsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
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Balfour Castle

Summary

Balfour Castle is a country house[1]. It draws 50 Wikipedia views per month (country_house category, ranking #31 of 138).[2]

Key Facts

  • Balfour Castle is located in Orkney Islands[3].
  • Balfour Castle is located in Shapinsay[4].
  • Balfour Castle is in the country of United Kingdom[5].
  • Balfour Castle's image is recorded as Balfour Castle - geograph.org.uk - 485291.jpg[6].
  • Balfour Castle's instance of is recorded as country house[7].
  • Balfour Castle's Commons category is recorded as Balfour Castle[8].
  • +1847-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Balfour Castle[9].
  • Balfour Castle's OS grid reference is recorded as HY4747716435[10].
  • Balfour Castle's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 59.031704232139, 'lon': -2.91677236229568}[11].
  • Balfour Castle's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02vxgnd[12].
  • Balfour Castle's located in/on physical feature is recorded as Shapinsay[13].
  • Balfour Castle's Historic Environment Scotland ID is recorded as LB18615[14].
  • Balfour Castle's Canmore ID is recorded as 2399[15].
  • Balfour Castle's heritage designation is recorded as category A listed building[16].
  • Balfour Castle's connects with is recorded as designed landscape at Balfour Castle[17].
  • Balfour Castle's Dictionary of Scottish Architects building ID is recorded as 101158[18].
  • Balfour Castle's associated electoral district is recorded as Orkney and Shetland[19].
  • Balfour Castle's historic county is recorded as Orkney Islands[20].
  • Balfour Castle's GB1900 ID is recorded as 5861478a2c66dc10b8047c9e[21].
  • Balfour Castle's British Listed Buildings ID is recorded as 200352695[22].

Body

Geography

Balfour Castle is in the country of United Kingdom[5]. Located in include Orkney Islands[3], an archipelago[23], in United Kingdom[24] and Shapinsay[4], an island[25], in United Kingdom[26].

Designation and Status

Balfour Castle's instance of is recorded as country house[7]. Its heritage designation is recorded as category A listed building[16].

History and Context

+1847-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Balfour Castle[9].

Why It Matters

Balfour Castle draws 50 Wikipedia views per month (country_house category, ranking #31 of 138).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . canmore.org.uk. canmore.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] . Historic Environment Scotland ID. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Historic Environment Scotland ID. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Historic Environment Scotland ID. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Historic Environment Scotland ID. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . portal.historicenvironment.scot. portal.historicenvironment.scot. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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