Delting, Shetland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place Type of entry Source
Busta an estate, with a mansion Groome
Busta seat Bartholomew
Fish Holm island Bartholomew
Fish-Holm a small island Groome
Gardens hamlet Bartholomew
Garth hamlet Bartholomew
Garth a village Groome
Gonfirth village Bartholomew
Inhouse a village Groome
Inhouse village Bartholomew
Lees hamlet Bartholomew
Lees a village Groome
Little Roe island Bartholomew
Little Roe an islet Groome
Meikle Roe an island Groome
Midlee (or Firth) school Bartholomew
Mossbank village Bartholomew
Mossbank a village Groome
Muckle Roe island Bartholomew
Olna Firth a bay Groome
Samphrey island Bartholomew
Samphrey an uninhabited island Groome
Swinister place Bartholomew
Voe hamlet 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
Lunna 0 2
Nesting 0 2
Mainland 0 1
Brindister 0 2
Northmaven 0 2
Burravoe 0 2
Whalsey 0 2
Sandsting 0 2
Hoove 0 2
Walls 0 2
Papa Stour 0 2
Yell 0 3
Tingwall 0 2
Lerwick 0 3
Scalloway 0 2
Bressay 0 1
Noss 0 2
Quarff 0 2
Fetlar 0 3
East Burra 0 3

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
DELTING 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:

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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.