Tingwall, Shetland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Tingwall. You may be able to find further references to Tingwall in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Tingwall parish Bartholomew
Tingwall a parish Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Tingwall.

Place Type of entry Source
Binnaness a headland and a voe or bay Groome
Girlsta hamlet Bartholomew
Gott hamlet Bartholomew
Greenholm an island Groome
Green Holm island Bartholomew
Hildesay island Bartholomew
Hoove village Bartholomew
Houland hamlet Bartholomew
Houl and Houland two villages Groome
Houl, Easter hamlet Bartholomew
Houster hamlet Bartholomew
Langa island Bartholomew
Lawting island Bartholomew
Laxfirth a bay Groome
Linga island Bartholomew
Linga an islet Groome
Ollagirth a village Groome
Oxna an island Groome
Scalloway seaport village Bartholomew
Scalloway a seaport village Groome
Trondra an island Groome
Trondra island Bartholomew
Wadbister village Bartholomew
Wadbister a village Groome
Weisdale district Bartholomew
Whiteness hamlet Bartholomew

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Hoove 0 2
Scalloway 0 2
Lerwick 0 3
Bressay 0 1
Quarff 0 2
East Burra 0 3
West Burra 0 1
Mainland 0 1
Cunningsburgh 0 3
Noss 0 2
Sandsting 0 2
Walls 0 2
Nesting 0 2
Sandwick 0 2
Mousa 0 2
Brindister 0 2
Dunrossness 0 2
Delting 0 2
Whalsey 0 2
Lunna 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Tingwall. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
THINGVOLLR F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
TINGWALL John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.