Sandsting

Parish in Shetland, Scotland

Ruins of St Mary's Chapel by Sand 1878 map of Sandness Parish (west of Sandsting/Aithsting)

Sandsting is a parish in the West Mainland of Shetland, Scotland, forming a southern arm of the Walls Peninsula. After the parish of Aithsting was annexed into Sandsting in the sixteenth century, it became known as Sandsting and Aithsting parish.[1][2][3]

## Summary

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The parish includes the settlements of Skeld, Westerwick and Culswick. It contains the islands of Vementry and Papa Little together with a number of smaller islets, on the south side of St Magnus Bay, and comprehends a mainland district of about ten miles by eight between that bay and Scalloway Bay. The coast is partly bold, and cavernous; the seaboard is cut into sections by long bays; and the interior is mostly an assemblage of knolls and hillocks, with a profusion of heath and interspersions of moss.[4][5]

The area of the parish is given as 162.4 km2.[6]

Antiquities include standing stones, burial monds and Old Norse fortifications, as well as church ruins and burial grounds. St Mary's Chapel in Sandsting was once the main church for the parish of Sandsting. The medieval church, which was built no later than the sixteenth century, now stands in ruin.[7]

Dunrossness

Lerwick

Bressay

Tingwall

Sandsting

Walls and Sandness

Nesting

Delting

Northmavine

Yell

Fetlar

Unst

## Etymology

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Sandsting is a place name derived from the farm of Sand. Ting, from the Old Norse Thing, is a reference to an assembly site or meeting place believed to have once been located within the area.[8]

## Note

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* This article is based in part on The Gazetteer of Scotland by Rev. John Wilson (1882) Published by W. & A.K. Johnstone, Edinburgh

## References

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1. ^ Parish of Sandsting (Scotland's places)
2. ^ Sandsting and Aithsting (Vision of Britain)
3. ^ Sandsting parish (Shetland) (Saints in Scottish Place-Names)
4. ^ "Overview of Sandsting". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
5. ^ Sandsting (Shetland Family History Society)
6. ^ Gazetteer for Scotland: Parish of Sandsting
7. ^ St Mary's Chapel by Sand (Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia)
8. ^ Patterns of Assembly: Norse Thing Sites in Shetland, (Alexandra Sanmark. Journal of the North Atlantic 2013 Special Volume 5:XX–XX)

## Related Reading

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* Graham-Campbell, James and Batey, Colleen E. (1998) Vikings in Scotland: An Archaeological Survey (Edinburgh University Press.) ISBN 978-0-7486-0641-2
* Jakobsen Jakob (1936) The Dialect and Place Names of Shetland (David Nutt, London)
* Stewart, John (1987) Shetland Collection of Place-names (Shetland Library and Museum, Lerwick)

## External links

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* St. Mary's Chapel, Sand
* Sandsting History Group
* Shetland Parish Map

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Shetland

Inhabited islands|

* Mainland
* Bressay
* Burra
* East Burra
* West Burra
* Fair Isle
* Fetlar
* Foula
* Muckle Roe
* North Isles
* Out Skerries
* Papa Stour
* Trondra
* Unst
* Vaila
* Whalsay
* Yell

Other islands|

* Balta
* Bigga
* Brother Isle
* Colsay
* Hascosay
* Hildasay
* Lamba
* Linga, Bluemull Sound
* Linga, Busta Voe
* Linga (near Vementry)
* Linga, Vaila Sound
* Linga, Yell Sound
* Mousa
* Noss
* Oxna
* Papa
* Papa Little
* Samphrey
* South Havra
* St Ninian's Isle
* Uyea, Northmavine
* Uyea, Unst
* Vementry
* Ve Skerries
* West Linga

Towns and villages|

* Lerwick
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* Baltasound
* Bigton
* Bixter
* Brae
* Cunningsburgh
* Grutness
* Gulberwick
* Gutcher
* Haroldswick
* Hillswick
* Levenwick
* Mid Yell
* Mossbank
* North Roe
* Ollaberry
* Quarff
* Sandwick
* Scalloway
* Symbister
* Toab
* Toft
* Ulsta
* Uyeasound
* Vidlin
* Voe
* Walls
* Weisdale
* Whiteness

Mainland Parishes|

* Delting
* Dunrossness
* Lerwick
* Nesting
* Northmavine
* Sandsting
* Tingwall
* Walls and Sandness

Insular Parishes|

* Bressay
* Fetlar
* Unst
* Yell

Maritime features|

* Balta Sound
* Bluemull Sound
* Burra Voe
* Busta Voe
* Calder's Geo
* Ronas Voe
* St Magnus Bay
* Sullom Voe
* West Voe of Sumburgh
* Yell Sound

Extreme points

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* Out Stack
* The Skerry, off Fair Isle
* Bound Skerry
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Archaeology|

* Bornish
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* St Magnus Cathedral
* Udal law

Althings|

* Delting
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* Law Ting Holm
* Lunnasting
* Nesting
* Sandsting
* Tingwall
* Tynwald

Language|

* Middle Irish
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* Scottish island names
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* Treaty of 1098
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* Gunn
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* Somhairle
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