Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Unst. You may be able to find further references to Unst in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Unst	an island	Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Unst.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Balta	an islet	Groome
Haafgrunie	an island	Groome
Uyea	an island	Groome
Uyea	island	Bartholomew
Westing	school	Bartholomew

Travel writing

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Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Buness	0	2
Fetlar	0	3
Yell	0	3
Burravoe	0	2
Northmaven	0	2
Lunna	0	2
Whalsey	0	2
Delting	0	2
Nesting	0	2
Mainland	0	1
Brindister	0	2
Sandsting	0	2
Papa Stour	0	2
Hoove	0	2
Tingwall	0	2
Lerwick	0	3
Noss	0	2
Walls	0	2
Bressay	0	1
Scalloway	0	2