Symbister
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Symbister is the main town on the island of Whalsay, part of the Scottish Shetlands . Its importance is based on its function as the island's port. The ferries that connect Whalsay with Laxo and Vidlin on Mainland , the main island of the Shetlands, land here .
history
In Symbister, the Hanseatic League , first documented in 1557, operated a trading station called Booth or Böd ( Bude ), where it purchased dried fish in particular . After the unification of the kingdoms of England and Scotland with the Act of Union , this relationship ended in 1707, as the associated protectionist measures such as the introduction of a salt tax made trade economically unattractive. The catch of fish remained important, but trade subsequently shifted towards Great Britain . As of 2010, Symbister is the home port of, among other things, seven trawlers that fish for herring and mackerel in the deep sea , but land their catch mainly in Norway and Denmark .
Symbister was largely a commercial establishment until the beginning of the 20th century . The people employed there lived in places a little off the coast or in the interior of the island, such as in Brough (with the parish church and the island's cemetery on Kirk Ness ), Marrister , Skaw , and Isbister because of the more suitable soils for agriculture . Only after the family Bruce, as Lairds the manorial held, 27 lots around 1905 in the immediate hinterland of the port a total of Crofter leased, also a village developed.
geography
The historical core of the place stretches in loose development along Symbister Bay, which lies on the eastern bank of Linga Sound and which forms a natural harbor . The beach along the bay was created artificially, it served to dry the caught fish. The roads to the neighboring villages are largely loose and partially densified , the borders to Sodom in the east and Sandwick and Clate in the south are fluid. To the north, the North Voe Bay forms the border with the neighboring town of Hamister . The Symbister Ness headland stretches to the southwest , at the highest point of which, the Ward of Symbister , are the remains of a cairn .
Buildings
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Several structures are designated as listed buildings and are therefore under monument protection . These are:
- The Harbor View building complex , in which the trading post formerly known as Bremen Booth has merged.
- A small pier with a transshipment building , the Pier House . In its current form, it dates back to 1830 and was the result of the renovation of an older building, probably from the 18th century . It is mistakenly mistaken for the Bremen Booth on various occasions . Today there is a small museum in it.
- On the beach there is a skeo , a building for drying fish and meat like those found in the Orkneys and Shetlands. The one of Symbister is, even if it is no longer used as such, one of the few remaining commercially operated this kind.
- In the south-west corner of the bay is the South West Dock with three adjacent farm buildings.
- On a hill east of the harbor stands Symbister House , the former estate of the Bruce family. The two schools on the island, previously located in Brough and Livister , were relocated here in the mid-1960s .
literature
- Marsali Taylor: Place: The Bonny Isle. The Shetland Times, June 6, 2010 (English)
Web links
- Entry Symbister in the Gazetteer for Scotland (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Whalsay on the Shetland Times operated website shetlandvisitor.com, accessed June 27, 2018 (English)
- ↑ Entry on Cairn by Symbister in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Skeo , definition in Merriam-Webster , accessed June 28, 2018
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ History of Symbister House. Whalsay School website, accessed June 29, 2018
Coordinates: 60 ° 20 ′ 34 " N , 1 ° 1 ′ 18" W.