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History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… Categories: 18th-19th Century The post-1945 development of Shetland's pelagic fishing industry. Gear, Robert M.Phil., … coverage: 19452000 Index terms: Fishing industry, in Shetland; Shetland; Scotland Categories: 20th Century The reading lives …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and Cunningsburgh, in the parish of Dunrossness, county of Shetland; containing 12 inhabitants. This island lies close … was espoused. Musa, Isle MUSA, ISLE, in the county of Shetland.See Mousa. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… part of the parish of Bressay, Burra, and Quarff, in the Shetland Isles; and containing 24 inhabitants. This island … Whalsay NESTING, LUNASTING, and WHALSAY, a parish, in the Shetland Isles; containing 2294 inhabitants. This parish … numbers beyond the average ratio of other parishes in the Shetland Isles, in consequence of the efforts of the two …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… NORTHMAVINE, a parish, in the Mainland district, county of Shetland, 30 miles (N. W. by N.) from Lerwick; containing, … the level of the sea, and is the most lofty elevation in Shetland, commanding from its summit, on a fine clear day, … The parish is in the presbytery of Burravoe and synod of Shetland, and in the patronage of the Earl of Zetland: the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Islands ORKNEY ISLANDS, a group forming, with that of Shetland, a maritime county, in the northern extremity of … on the north by the waters which divide Orkney from Shetland; on the east by the North Sea; on the south by the … the isles were originally peopled. The Orkney and the Shetland Islands appear to have been both explored by the …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… of Ross, requesting a fee farm grant of the islands of Shetland and Lewis]. 308 (295). Ad peticionem Hugonis de Ros, … at fee farm for 200 marks the two outer islands of Shetland and Lewis which are wasteland and did not pay …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was done with north Scotland, the Western Isles, and the Shetland Isles. Sausages and other 'small goods' have also …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… quoad sacra parish of Burra and Quarff, in the county of Shetland; and containing 21 inhabitants. This is a small … of the parish of Aithsting and Sandsting, in the county of Shetland; and containing 11 inhabitants. It lies in St. … part of the parish of Walls and Sandness, in the county of Shetland; and containing 382 inhabitants. This island lies at …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… or MAINLAND, an island, in the county of Orkney and Shetland; containing 16,141 inhabitants. This island, which …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… occurs of the hawks due to the King yearly from Orkney and Shetland. 214 The poverty of the country appears from a …