Uyeasound

Uyeasound
View from the Isle of Uyea, showing both the village and the sound of the same name
Uyeasound Uyeasound shown within Shetland
OS grid reference	HP590010
Civil parish	Unst
Council area	Shetland
Lieutenancy area	Shetland
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SHETLAND
Postcode district	ZE2
Dialling code	01957
Police	Scottish
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
EU Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	Orkney and Shetland
Scottish Parliament	Shetland
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Coordinates: 60°41′20″N 0°55′08″W / 60.689°N 0.919°W / 60.689; -0.919

Uyeasound is a village on the Isle of Unst, the northernmost island of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It takes its name from the neighbouring strait of the same name, which looks over to the Isle of Uyea.^[1]

Uyeasound is home to Greenwell's Booth, a Hanseatic warehouse and Muness Castle.^[2]^[3]^[4]

References

↑ "Overview of Uyeasound". Scottish Places. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
↑ "Greenwell's Booth, Uyeasound". Murray Foote. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
↑ "Unst, Uyeasound, Greenwell's Booth". Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
↑ "Uyeasound Hanseatic Booth". BBC Domesday Reloaded. Retrieved 13 December 2014.

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North Isles, Shetland Islands

Inhabited islands	Fetlar Unst Yell

Other islands	Balta Brough Holm Gloup Holm Haaf Gruney Hascosay Huney Linga Muckle Flugga Out Stack Sound Gruney Urie Lingey Uyea

Towns and villages	Aywick Baltasound Belmont Burravoe Copister Cullivoe Gloup Gutcher Houbie Haroldswick Mid Yell Skaw Ulsta Uyeasound West Sandwick

Points of interest	Belmont House Brough Lodge Burgi Geos Daal of Lumbister Hermaness Muness Castle Old Haa Museum RAF Saxa Vord Unst Bus Shelter Valhalla Brewery

Shetland

Inhabited islands	Mainland Bressay Burra (East / West) Fair Isle Fetlar Foula Muckle Roe North Isles Out Skerries Papa Stour Trondra Unst Vaila Whalsay Yell

Other islands	Balta Bigga Brother Isle Colsay Hascosay Hildasay Lamba Linga, Muckle Roe Linga, Yell Mousa Noss Oxna Papa Papa Little Samphrey South Havra Uyea, Northmavine Uyea, Unst Vementry West Linga

Towns and villages	Lerwick Aith Baltasound Brae Grutness Gutcher Haroldswick Mossbank Quarff Scalloway Symbister Toft Ulsta Uyeasound Vidlin Voe Walls

Mainland Parishes	Delting Dunrossness Lerwick Nesting Northmavine Sandsting Tingwall Walls and Sandness

Maritime features	Balta Sound Bluemull Sound Burra Voe Busta Voe Calder's Geo St Magnus Bay Sullom Voe West Voe of Sumburgh Yell Sound

Extreme points (N S E W)	Out Stack The Skerry, off Fair Isle Bound Skerry Waster Hoevda, Foula

Topics	Animal breeds Etymology History Prehistory

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