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Tingwall parish includes the settlements of Scalloway, Whiteness, Veensgarth and Gott, and the Vallafield housing estate. The centre of the parish was the Tingwall Kirk . [ 1 ] It comprehends a section of Mainland, stretching from the Atlantic at Scalloway, to the North Sea at Rova Head and includes the formerly inhabited islands of Hildasay ...
Whiteness (Old Norse: Hvitanes, white headland) is a village in Tingwall parish, Shetland Islands, Scotland, on Mainland. [1] It is also an ancient civil parish that was merged with Tingwall in 1891. The village lies seven miles north north west of Lerwick. The parish is now merged with Tingwall.
Upload another image Sound, John Clunies Ross's House, Including Bods, Cottages, Outbuildings, Walls And Slip 60°14′03″N 1°18′35″W / 60.234252°N 1.30975°W / 60.234252; -1.30975 (Sound, John Clunies Ross's House, Including Bods, Cottages, Outbuildings, Walls And Slip) Category B 47305 Upload Photo Whiteness, St Ola's Kirk, Including Graveyard Wall 60°12′34″N 1 ...
Breiwick is in the parish of Tingwall, [1] and is 1.6 mi (2.5 km) north-east of Gott. [2] The remains of a broch are located above Corbie Geo at Hawks Ness, near to the settlement. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Wildlife in the area includes the knot .
Veensgarth (Old Norse: Vikingsgarðr, Viking farm, or Vingarðr, Meadow Farm), is a village in the Tingwall valley west of Lerwick on Mainland in Shetland, Scotland. It includes the Vallafield housing estate. Veensgarth is also within the parish of Tingwall, [1] and is situated at the junction of the A970 and the B9074. [2]
Law Ting Holm (also known as Tingaholm [2]) is a small promontory at the north end of the freshwater Loch of Tingwall, Mainland Shetland, Scotland. [1] It was once an islet entirely surrounded by water, joined to the shore by a stone causeway 1.7 metres (6 ft) wide and 42.7 metres (140 ft) long.
Papa – belongs to Civil parish of Lerwick; West Head of Papa (tidal) The aforementioned islands were all part of the ancient civil parish of Burra, which was merged with Lerwick in 1891. [2] They are shown on coloured maps as part of Lerwick. [3] Hildasay/Hildesay – belongs to Civil parish of Tingwall; Langa – belongs to Civil parish of ...
Scalloway (Old Norse: Skálavágr, name of the bay) is the largest settlement on the west coast of the Mainland, the largest island of the Shetland, Scotland.The village had a population of roughly 900, at the 2011 census. [2]