Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Lerwick	a parish containing a town	Groome
Lerwick	a burgh of barony, a police burgh, and the chief town and county town of Shetland	Groome

Travel writing

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Tingwall	0	2
Noss	0	2
Quarff	0	2
Scalloway	0	2
Hoove	0	2
Cunningsburgh	0	3
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Mainland	0	1
Mousa	0	2
Sandwick	0	2
Sandsting	0	2
Nesting	0	2
Dunrossness	0	2
Whalsey	0	2
Walls	0	2
Brindister	0	2
Delting	0	2
Lunna	0	2