Place Names Blog
Find out more about Shetland's place names, an important component of our cultural heritage, providing vital clues about the environment, history, geography, and the people who lived here in the past: where they came from, what language they spoke and how they used the land.
Our place names expert Eileen Brooke Freeman has developed a series of blogs for us featuring different types of place names. we hope you enjoy them.
- Place name of the week - wicks - published 14th April 2020
- Place name of the week - bisters - published 21st April 2020
- Place name of the week - warts and trigs - published 28th April 2020
- Place name of the week - holms - published 5th May 2020
- Place name of the week - gaets, gotts and veiens - published 12th May 2020
- Place name of the week - kleber, klamel and klemel - published 21st May 2020
- Place name of the week - beaches - published 29th May 2020
- Place name of the week - birds published 4th June 2020
- Place name of the week - garth, gerdie and gorsendi published 11th June 2020
- Place name of the week - Lerwick Lanes published 18th June 2020
- Place name of the week - Houlls published 25th June 2020
- Place name of the week - Tour of the world 2nd July 2020
- Place name of the week - Brochs & Forts 9 July 2020
- Place name of the week - Linga and Klingra 18 July 2020
- Place name of the week - Landing places, docks and harbours 23 July 2020
- Place name of the week - Mills 30 July 2020
- Place name of the week - Nesses 6 August 2020
- Place name of the week - Deep ida daals 13 August 2020
- Place name of the week - Quoys, Quees and Hwais 20 August 2020
- Place Name of the Week - Noosts 3 September
- Place Name of the Week -Tings and things 10 September 2020
- Place Name of the Week - Pursuing Pirates 18 September 2020
- Place Name of the Week - Searching for Sheep 2 October 2020
- Place Name of the Week - Neaps and Noups 12 October 2020
- Place Name of the Week - Bölin da Kye 23 October 2020
- Place Name of the Week - Njuggls and Shöpilties 29 October 2020
- Place Name of the Week - All about burning 6 November 2020
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Place Name of the Week - Talking Taings 13 November 2020
- Place Name of the Week - Personal Names 25 November 2020
- Place Name of the Week - Skerries 4 December 2020
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