Walls, Shetland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Walls parish and hamlet Bartholomew
Walls a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Fogla Skerry skerry Bartholomew
Foula island Bartholomew
Greenland a village Groome
Greenland village Bartholomew
Happyhansel school Bartholomew
Linga island Bartholomew
Linga an islet Groome
Melby a mansion Groome
Melby seat Bartholomew
Mid Walls school Bartholomew
Norby a village Groome
Norby hamlet Bartholomew
Papa Stour island Bartholomew
Papa Stour an island Groome
Vaila an island Groome
Vaila island 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
Sandsting 0 2
Brindister 0 2
Papa Stour 0 2
Hoove 0 2
Mainland 0 1
Scalloway 0 2
Tingwall 0 2
West Burra 0 1
East Burra 0 3
Quarff 0 2
Delting 0 2
Lerwick 0 3
Bressay 0 1
Nesting 0 2
Cunningsburgh 0 3
Foula 0 2
Lunna 0 2
Sandwick 0 2
Noss 0 2
Northmaven 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
WALLS 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.