Isbister (Northmavine)

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View over Isbister and Sand Voe Bay and the village of Sandvoe
Isbister cemetery

Isbister is a village in the north of Northmavine , a peninsula of Mainland , the main island of the Scottish Shetlands . The name is derived from old Norse eystri and bólstaðr and means eastern settlement . Isbister is considered to be the most northerly town in Mainland, where the A970 ends , which runs through the island for around 105 kilometers from south to north. In the west is the land-side end of the Sand Voe bay , in the northeast Isbister is dominated by the Lanchestoo , a 130 meter high hill. The next larger town is North Roe, about two kilometers to the southwest .

Isbister has two individual farms, Houll in the east and Benigarth in the northwest. A chapel still existed in the village around 1900, but it disappeared around the middle of the 20th century. The associated cemetery, on the other hand, still exists and it has been used until at least 1969.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Glossary of Scandinavian origins of place names in Britain. Ordnance Survey website , accessed July 2, 2018
  2. ↑ Entry on Isbister  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

Coordinates: 60 ° 35 ′ 59 ″  N , 1 ° 19 ′ 28 ″  W.