Nesting, Shetland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place Type of entry Source
Bound Skerries a group of islets, with one inhabited house Groome
Brurie Skerries island group Bartholomew
Brurie Skerries a group of islets Groome
Burravoe a bay Groome
Gletness, North Isle and South Isle of 2 islands Bartholomew
Gruna Skerries islands Bartholomew
Gruna Skerries a group of small islands Groome
Housay Island Bartholomew
Housie Skerries a group of islets Groome
Housie Skerries islands Bartholomew
Linga island Bartholomew
Linga an uninhabited islet Groome
Lunna coastal village Bartholomew
Lunna a coast village Groome
Maiden Stack isolated rock Bartholomew
Out Skerries group of islands Bartholomew
Skerries, Out group of islands Bartholomew
Whalsay island Bartholomew
Whalsey an island Groome

Travel writing

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

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Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Lunna 0 2
Whalsey 0 2
Delting 0 2
Mainland 0 1
Hoove 0 2
Burravoe 0 2
Tingwall 0 2
Sandsting 0 2
Lerwick 0 3
Brindister 0 2
Noss 0 2
Bressay 0 1
Scalloway 0 2
Northmaven 0 2
Quarff 0 2
Walls 0 2
Yell 0 3
East Burra 0 3
West Burra 0 1
Papa Stour 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

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

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