4-531: Weisdale is a bay, hamlet and ancient parish on Mainland in Shetland , Scotland. The bay opens near the northern extremity of Scalloway Bay, and strikes four and a half miles to the north north east. The hamlet lies at the bay's head, about twelve miles north west of Lerwick . Weisdale was the scene of a series of evictions of crofters in favour of large scale sheep farming in the 19th century. Approximately three hundred and eighteen crofters were evicted from
8-428: A Shetland Environmental Award in 2006 This article incorporates text from - Wilson, Rev. John The Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1882) Published by W. & A.K. Johnstone This Shetland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mainland, Shetland The Mainland is the main island of Shetland , Scotland . The island contains Shetland's only burgh , Lerwick , and
12-647: Is the centre of Shetland's ferry and air connections. It has an area of 374 sq mi (970 km ), making it the third-largest Scottish island and the fifth largest of the British Isles after Great Britain , Ireland , Lewis and Harris and Skye . Mainland is the second most populous of the Scottish islands (only surpassed by Lewis and Harris ), and had 18,765 residents in 2011 compared to 17,550 in 2001. The mainland can be broadly divided into four sections: This Shetland location article
16-675: The Weisdale valley in what is described as the clearances . Local author John J. Graham wrote two novels on this theme. There is one church in Weisdale. It is known as the Weisdale Kirk and is part of the Church of Scotland . This kirk was built in 1863 and is now surrounded by a beautiful garden which was created by local volunteers with the assistance of the BBC Scotland Beechgrove Garden team. The garden won
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