Dunrossness, Shetland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place Type of entry Source
Bousta village Bartholomew
Clumlee a hamlet and a headland Groome
Clumlee headland and hamlet Bartholomew
Colsay a small island Groome
Cross Isle island Bartholomew
Cross Isle a small island Groome
Cruister hamlet Bartholomew
Exnaboe a village Groome
Fair Isle an island Groome
Fair Isle Bartholomew
Fitful Head a large bold headland Groome
Fladdabister hamlet Bartholomew
Fladibister a hamlet Groome
Gauhsness a place Groome
Hillwell hamlet Bartholomew
Hoswick a village Groome
Hoswick coastal hamlet Bartholomew
Levenwick a coast village Groome
Levenwick coastal village Bartholomew
Mousa an island Groome
Mousa island Bartholomew
Noness coastal village Bartholomew
Noness a coast village Groome
Ockraquay a village Groome
Quendale Bay a bay Groome
Spiggie place Bartholomew
Virkie 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
Sandwick 0 2
Mousa 0 2
Cunningsburgh 0 3
East Burra 0 3
West Burra 0 1
Quarff 0 2
Scalloway 0 2
Bressay 0 1
Lerwick 0 3
Tingwall 0 2
Noss 0 2
Hoove 0 2
Sandsting 0 2
Walls 0 2
Mainland 0 1
Brindister 0 2
Nesting 0 2
Papa Stour 0 2
Whalsey 0 2
Delting 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
DUNROSSNESS 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.