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Sandwick, Shetland

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Sandwick (Sandvik "Sandy Bay") is an ancient parish in the Shetland Islands that had been merged in 1891, along with Cunningsburgh, into Dunrossness It is located 13 miles south of Lerwick in the South Mainland. [1]

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Civil parishes in Scotland

Civil parishes, as units of local government in Scotland, were abolished by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Cunningsburgh

Cunningsburgh, formerly also known as Coningsburgh (Konungsborgr meaning "King's castle"), is a hamlet and ancient parish in the south of Mainland, Shetland.

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Dunrossness

Dunrossness, (Old Norse: Dynrastarnes meaning "headland of the loud tide-race", referring to the noise of Sumburgh Roost) is the southernmost parish of Shetland, Scotland.

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland judges to be "eminently distinguished in their subject".

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Hoswick

Hoswick (pronounced Hoh-sic) is a village in the south mainland of Shetland, on the West of the ancient parish of Sandwick.

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Knitted fabric

Knitted fabric is a textile that results from knitting.

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Lerwick

Lerwick (Scottish Gaelic: Liùrabhaig, Norwegian: Leirvik) is the main port of Shetland Islands, Scotland.

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Mousa

Mousa (Mosey "moss island") is a small island in Shetland, Scotland, uninhabited since the nineteenth century.

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Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency)

Orkney and Shetland is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Post office

A post office is a customer service facility forming part of a national postal system.

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Sandvík

Sandvík (pronounced, "Sandy Bay"; Sandvig) is the northernmost village of the island of Suðuroy in the Faroe Islands.

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Sandwick, Orkney

Sandwick (Sandvík,Pedersen, Roy (January 1992) Orkneyjar ok Katanes (map, Inverness, Nevis Print) meaning "Sand Bay") is a parish on the west coast of the Mainland of Orkney in ScotlandWilson, Rev.

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Sandwick, Whalsay

Sandwick is a hamlet, often considered part of the main village of Symbister along with adjacent Harlsdale, in the parish of Nesting in southwestern Whalsay in the Shetland Islands of Scotland.

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Shetland

Shetland (Old Norse: Hjaltland), also called the Shetland Islands, is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies northeast of Great Britain.

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Shetland (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Shetland is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood).

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South Mainland

The South Mainland of the Shetland Islands is the southern peninsula of Mainland island.

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Swimming pool

A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or paddling pool is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities.

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Thomas Matthew Finlay

Dr Thomas Matthew Finlay FRSE EGS (17 September 1879-31 January 1954) was a Scottish geologist and palaeontologist.

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Sandwick Junior High School, Sandwick, Mainland.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwick,_Shetland

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