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Nesting, Shetland
Nesting is a parish in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It includes a part of the east Shetland Mainland, measuring about , along the seaboard from Gletness to Lunna Ness, and also the island of Whalsay and the Out Skerries. The coast is deeply indented by voes and headlands. The arable land comprises only about , the remainder being mostly open moorland. The total area is given as . This includes the ancient parish of Lunnasting in the North and the island parish of Whalsay to the east, which were added to Nesting in 1891. Before that, the ancient parishes of North Nesting and South Nesting were merged. The parish church, St Ola's Kirk, stands approximately north of Lerwick near the war memorial at Brettabister."Nesting" Shetlopedia. Retrieved 9 Feb 2013. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parishes Of Shetland
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or more curates, and who operates from a parish church. Historically, a parish often covered the same geographical area as a manor. Its association with the parish church remains paramount. By extension the term ''parish'' refers not only to the territorial entity but to the people of its community or congregation as well as to church property within it. In England this church property was technically in ownership of the parish priest ''ex officio'', vested in him on his institution to that parish. Etymology and use First attested in English in the late 13th century, the word ''parish'' comes from the Old French , in turn from , the Romanisation of the , "sojourning in a foreign land", itself from (''paroikos''), "dwelling beside, st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Levie
Alexander ("Alsie") Levie FRSE FRCVS (1865–1955) was a Scottish veterinary surgeon. Life He was born on 31 August 1865 in the manse at Nesting, Shetland the son of Rev William Levie of Aberdeen (1831–1901) and his wife Eliza Greig Pole (1835–1886). He studied Veterinary Science in Edinburgh. On qualifying he taught in Nottingham and then for 32 years in Derby. In 1910 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Orlando Charnock Bradley, John Glaister, Robert Wallace and McLauchlan Young. He died at Overfields, Quarndon in Derbyshire on 5 December 1955. Family In 1893 he married Mary Anna Osborne Campbell (1870–1956) at the Commercial Hotel in Kirkcudbright Kirkcudbright ( ; ) is a town at the mouth of the River Dee, Galloway, River Dee in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, southwest of Castle Douglas and Dalbeattie. A former royal burgh, it is the traditional county town of Kirkcudbrightshire. His .... She was the daughter of Tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Stout Angus
James Stout Angus (20 September 1830 – 26 December 1923) was a writer from Shetland, Scotland. Life Angus was born at Catfirth Haa in the parish of Nesting. His grandfather William Angus is recorded first at Burraness in Delting, but the lands of Catfirth were leased in 1782 to the Angus family who retained them until 1890. His son Hercules (1791–1871) married Janet Stout of Scatsta. He was a merchant at Catfirth and it was here that the writer grew up. James had some tuition from Robert Laing, schoolmaster, land surveyor and teacher of navigation, and he assisted his schoolmaster uncle in Reawick for a time, but he subsequently bound himself as a housewright or joiner, then worked as a ship's carpenter, sailing emigrant and East Indian ships. He settled in Lerwick when he married, establishing a successful business as a housewright at No. 6 Commercial Street. Angus began to publish poetry in the press in the 1870s, and is credited by Laurence Graham as having composed, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pettigarths Field Cairns
The Pettigarths Field Cairns is a Neolithic site in the parish of Nesting, Shetland, Nesting, northeastern Whalsay, in the Shetland islands of Scotland. It is located approximately to the northwest of Benie Hoose. The site contains upright stones as well as masonry. The south cairn is roughly square, with an eastern entrance passage and circular chamber about across. to the north is a round cairn, in diameter, with a rectangular cist. The two cairns are located on a rise, about northwest of Benie Hoose. The first archaeological explorations were carried out in 1936 and 1938. They were then inferred to be tombs belonging to the Late Stone Age and Early Bronze Age. It was excavated in 1963 by C. S. T. Calder and visited by OS (NKB) on 30 May 1968. Layout The large cairn has a paved chamber and passage. The chamber is small and is Heel-shaped cairn, heel-shaped; it is different in layout from three other cairns found in Shetland. The passage into the cairn is through two stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standing Stones Of Yoxie
The Standing Stones of Yoxie is a Neolithic site in the parish of Nesting on the northeastern coast of Whalsay, in the Shetland islands of Scotland. It is located approximately to the southeast of Benie Hoose, not far from the steep cliffs of Yoxie Geo. The site is also known as "Yoxie Biggins". The structure is the remains of a building in a Neolithic settlement called Pettigarths Field, about 4,000 years old, which also includes a megalithic tomb and Benie Hoose. The site has been compared to that of Hal Tarxien. Layout The earlier assessment that the monument was a standing stone grouping has since been revised. It is now known to consist of a building partitioned into rooms. The "standing stones" name is derived from the fact that the walls were built in part from megaliths, many of them still erect. The building was once about in size, but little remains of the northern part. There is a main L-shaped block to the west, and a smaller forecourt to the east. There are no t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benie Hoose
Benie Hoose, also Bunyie Hoose, is a Neolithic site in the parish of Nesting, northeastern Whalsay, in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. It is located approximately to the northwest of the Standing Stones of Yoxie, and about southeast of the Pettigarths Field Cairns. Benie' is believed to be a local term for 'Bone House' or graveyard or a transliteration of the Old Norse 'Boenhus', which means 'a house of prayer' or chapel. Based on architectural details and its location with respect to Yoxie, a nearby site, it is conjectured that the Benie Hoose was the residence of the priests who were associated with performing worship at the temple at Yoxie. Benie Hoose and Yoxie demonstrate characteristics of 'paired houses'. OS (NKB) visited the site on 30 May 1968. The one-room site measures , and features a horned forecourt. Layout The site was excavated in 1954–1955 by Charles S. T. Calder who gave the items to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in 1955–1956. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symbister
Symbister is the largest village and port on Whalsay, an island in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland. The population in 1991 was 797. The focus of the village is the harbour, which is home to small Fishing vessel, fishing boats as well as large deep sea Fishing trawler, trawlers. The village is overlooked by the granite mansion Symbister House, built by the Sixth Robert Bruce of Symbister in 1823. The harbour is also known by the names Bay Of Symbister, Symbister Harbour and Symbister Old Harbour. The Pier House Museum, Pier House, now a museum, was once the centre for the export of dried and salted fish to the Hanseatic League, an military alliance, alliance of trade, trading guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly over much of Northern Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries. History The island has been inhabited for more than 4000 years as witnessed by the Neolithic houses of Standing Stones of Yoxie, Yoxie and Benie Hoose, Benie. An Iron Age block hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
