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Esha Ness, also spelled Eshaness, is a peninsula on the west coast of Northmavine, on the island of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. Esha Ness Lighthouse is located on the west coast of the peninsula, just south of Calder's Geo. The lighthouse was designed by David Alan Stevenson and commissioned in 1929.
Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom. The islands lie about 50 miles (80 kilometres) to the northeast of Orkney, 110 mi (170 km) from mainland Scotland and 140 mi (220 km) west of Norway.
The hexagonal town-centre market cross, 50 ft (15 m) high, dates from a £20 bequest by Walter Buckland in 1520 [4] and was re-erected in 1841. [117] Also in the market place is the Shambles, a medieval market stall, though much restored. [118] Former HM Prison Shepton Mallet, sometimes known as Cornhill, was built in 1610. [119]
The northern lights illuminated the skies on Sunday night (5 November) with confirmed sightings spread across the UK. Stunning footage shows the sky lit up by the aurora borealis. The Met Office ...
The elaborate Malmesbury market cross French market with cross, c. 1400. A market cross, or in Scots, a mercat cross, is a structure used to mark a market square in market towns, where historically the right to hold a regular market or fair was granted by the monarch, a bishop or a baron.
Around 35 [19] people live on the two main islands, Housay and Bruray, just east of the main Shetland Islands group. A third island, Grunay, is currently uninhabited. The two main islands are linked by a bridge.
Lerwick (/ ˈ l ɛ r ɪ k / or / ˈ l ɜː r w ɪ k /; Old Norse: Leirvik; Norn: Larvik) is the main town and port of the Shetland archipelago, Scotland. Shetland's only burgh, Lerwick had a population of about 7,000 residents in 2010. [3] It is the northernmost major settlement within the United Kingdom.
Bressay lies due south of Whalsay, west of the Isle of Noss, and north of Mousa.With an area of 11 square miles (28 km 2), it is the fifth-largest island in Shetland.The population is around 360 people, [2] concentrated in the middle of the west coast, around Glebe and Fullaburn.