B9065

Route

Approaching the B9064

The B9065 is possibly the shortest B-road in Orkney, running from the Rousay Ferry Pier to the B9064 island loop road at Trumland: barely a third of a mile long. Starting from the pier, it climbs up through the village, passing the ferry waiting area, with a small museum of sorts, and the island's only (?) pub, which sits just above the slipway. It then sweeps round to the left at a triangular junction with the war memorial in a walled, wooded enclosure in the middle. A sweeping right hander then lifts the route the last few yards to the terminal junction.

History

The later route of the B9065

Whilst in 1922 when originally classified, the B9065 seems to have followed more-or-less the course it does today (it seems to have joined the B9064 slightly further west), in the 1950s it is mapped as forming a loop from the B9064, past the piers. This included the steep climb back up from Brinian House, which may be why this section was declassified once more.

The 1922 MOT Road List defines this route as: Branch at Brinyan