Castle Holm Muness Castle Scalloway Castle Vaila Tower There are few castles in Shetland, the northernmost of the Northern Isles which lie off the coast...
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is a list of castles in Scotland. A castle is a type of fortified structure built primarily during the Middle Ages. Scholars debate the scope of the word...
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Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. It is the northernmost region...
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Scalloway Castle is a tower house in Scalloway, on the Shetland Mainland, the largest island in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. The tower was built in 1600...
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This is a list of Shetland islands in Scotland. The Shetland archipelago is located 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of mainland Scotland and the capital...
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Scotland has around 900 offshore islands, most of which are to be found in four main groups: Shetland, Orkney, and the Hebrides, sub-divided into the...
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Scalloway (category Villages in Mainland, Shetland)
on the east coast of the Shetland Mainland). It contains one of the two castles built in Shetland; this one was constructed in 1600. Nearby are the Scalloway...
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Unst (redirect from Unst, Shetland)
one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It is the northernmost of the inhabited British Isles and is the third-largest island in Shetland...
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spectacular of a complex class of roundhouse buildings found throughout Atlantic Scotland. The Shetland Amenity Trust lists about 120 sites in Shetland as candidate...
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The Zenith of Iron Age Shetland (Cultural site) List of World Heritage Sites in Europe List of World Heritage Sites in Scotland Lists of World Heritage...
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earliest seats of Clan Sinclair. It comprises the ruins of two castles: the 15th-century Castle Girnigoe; and the early 17th-century Castle Sinclair. They...
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competition, held annually in July. The isle is home to four castles, including the towering castle of Duart and the keep of Moy Castle. On the south coast,...
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Vaila (category Islands of Shetland)
"Valey") is an island in Shetland, Scotland, lying south of the Westland peninsula of the Shetland Mainland. It has an area of 327 hectares (810 acres)...
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Norn language (category History of Shetland)
that was spoken in the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland) off the north coast of mainland Scotland and in Caithness in the far north of the Scottish mainland...
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Orkney (redirect from Protected areas in Orkney)
of the Northern Isles along with Shetland, Orkney is 10 miles (16 km) north of Caithness and has about 70 islands, of which 20 are inhabited. The largest...
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Sakamkam Fort Sharjah Fort See also the list of castles, as many early forts were called castles, and many castle sites were reused for later fortifications...
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This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Unst in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates...
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Wyre, Orkney (redirect from Cubbie Roo's Castle)
c. 300 islands over 20 ha in extent and 93 permanently inhabited islands were listed in the 2011 census. National Records of Scotland (15 August 2013)...
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Scottish Highlands (redirect from Highlands of Scotland)
geography of the Grampians in the south, it continued in the north, cutting off the north-eastern areas, that is Eastern Caithness, Orkney and Shetland, from...
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effectively become independents. The chairs of the 26 select committees were elected in September 2024. List of United Kingdom MPs by seniority (2024–present)...
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is intended to be as full a list as possible of country houses, castles, palaces, other stately homes, and manor houses in the United Kingdom and the Channel...
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List of castles in Scotland List of country houses in the United Kingdom List of hillforts in Scotland List of historic sites in Scotland List of monastic...
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of such features are also listed below. Of the 275 stacks in Scotland identified by Mellor (2020) circa 110 are located around the coasts of Shetland...
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Legends. Avonmouth. Parragon. ISBN 0-7525-1694-9 Coventry, Martin (2008) Castles of the Clans. Musselburgh. Goblinshead. ISBN 978-1-899874-36-1 Downie, R...
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This is a list of Academy Award–nominated films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface...
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This is a partial list of shipwrecks which occurred in the Atlantic Ocean. The list includes ships that sank, foundered, grounded, or were otherwise lost...
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lacking in freshwater islands. Law Ting Holm, now attached to Mainland Shetland, was the location of the national þing, or Norse parliament of Shetland. No...
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Deception Island (redirect from Deception Island (South Shetland Islands))
Deception Island is in the South Shetland Islands close to the Antarctic Peninsula with a large and usually "safe" natural harbor, which is occasionally...
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Kerrera (redirect from Isle of Kerrera)
visited Kerrera in 1831 and made 25 sketches of the castle which are in the Tate Gallery, London. Most of the island is owned by the McDougalls of Dunollie,...
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Mainland, Orkney (category Islands of the Orkney Islands)
Yesnaby Brough of Deerness Scottish islands portal Geology of Orkney List of islands of Scotland List of places in Orkney Mainland, Shetland Haswell-Smith...
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