Sandsting, Shetland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Sandsting parish Bartholomew
Sandsting and Aithsting a united parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Aith hamlet, bay, and headland Bartholomew
Bixter a voe or bay Groome
Bixter a voe or bay Bartholomew
Braganess a headland Groome
Braganess headland Bartholomew
Brindister village and bay Bartholomew
Brindister a voe or bay and a village Groome
Clonsta hamlet with school Bartholomew
Clousta a bay or voe Groome
Foreholm a small island Groome
Fore Holm island Bartholomew
Foreness a small peninsula Groome
Fore Ness peninsula Bartholomew
Garderhouse Bartholomew
Gilderumple Head promontory Bartholomew
Grating hamlet Bartholomew
Kirkholm an islet Groome
Kirkholm island Bartholomew
Reawick seat Bartholomew
Sand school Bartholomew
Sand Sound school Bartholomew
Sandsound Voe an elongated narrow bay or sea-loch Groome
Skeld hamlet with school Bartholomew
Tresta hamlet Bartholomew
Twatt school Bartholomew
Vementry island Bartholomew
Vementry an island Groome
West Burrafirth school Bartholomew

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
Brindister 0 2
Walls 0 2
Mainland 0 1
Hoove 0 2
Tingwall 0 2
Scalloway 0 2
Papa Stour 0 2
Delting 0 2
Nesting 0 2
Lerwick 0 3
West Burra 0 1
East Burra 0 3
Quarff 0 2
Bressay 0 1
Lunna 0 2
Cunningsburgh 0 3
Noss 0 2
Whalsey 0 2
Northmaven 0 2
Sandwick 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
SANDSTING John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
SANDSTING AND AITHSTING 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:

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  • 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.