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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 ...
Tingwall is a farm [1] and ferry terminal that lies on the north-east coast of Orkney's West Mainland on the Gairsay Sound in the parish of Evie and Rendall. There is a ferry connection to the islands of Wyre, Rousay and Egilsay. [2] Lobster pots on the harbour at Tingwall, Orkney. The harbour was built in the 1980s and is used by fishing ...
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.
The civil parish of Lerwick had been in 1701 created from a small part of the parish of Tingwall, to which Scalloway still belongs. When Lerwick became more prosperous through sea trade and the fishing industry during the 19th century, the town expanded in 1891 to the west of Hillhead, thereby including the former civil parishes of Gulberwick ...