Treawick

Treawick

Treawick
Treawick
 Treawick shown within Shetland
OS grid referenceHU572630
Civil parishNesting
Council areaShetland
Lieutenancy areaShetland
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town SHETLAND
Postcode district ZE2
Police Scottish
Fire Scottish
Ambulance Scottish
EU Parliament Scotland
UK ParliamentOrkney and Shetland
Scottish ParliamentShetland
List of places
UK
Scotland

Coordinates: 60°20′53″N 0°57′43″W / 60.348°N 0.962°W / 60.348; -0.962

Treawick, also Traewick, is an uninhabited crofting village in eastern Whalsay in the parish of Nesting in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. It is located to the south of Isbister and northeast of Huxter.[1] Falsa Burn flows into the sea just to the south. The name of the village is Old Norse for tree.[2] In the 1930s, when the road from Symbister to Isbister was being planned, the villagers protested against it passing through the village so it passed to the west of the village. The old crofting houses here have long been abandoned. Offshore is Rumble.

References

  1. "Treawick, HU 572 629 GB Grid". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  2. Johnston, J. L. (1999). A Naturalist's Shetland. T. & A.D. Poyser Limited. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-85661-105-6. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
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