Cunningsburgh

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Shetland Settlements
Name: Cunningsburgh
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UK Grid Reference: HU435295
Distance from Lerwick by road: 9 miles
Community Council: Gulberwick, Quarff, & Cunningsburgh
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Cunningsburgh, (Old Norse : Konungsborg = King's Broch ), is a village on the main A970 road, approximately 9 miles south of Lerwick.
It was historically divided into three districts: Cunningsburgh besouth the burn, Cunningsburgh benorth the burn, and Fladdabister.

The village has a primary school, shop, filling station, 2 churches, a public hall and the Cunningsburgh Village Club. Alongside the hall, at the north end of the village is a football pitch, home to Cunningsburgh FC.
Also at the north end of the village is the show field for the annual Cunningsburgh Show, an agricultural show which is held on the 2nd Wednesday of August each year.

The village also has the safest anchorage for boats in the South Mainland, at Aithsvoe, where a marina development was completed in 2004.

At the south end of the village, at Mail, is the local churchyard, in which stands the memorial to the 23 men of the district who were lost in the two World Wars.

In the hill to the west of the village, at the Catpund Burn, are the remains of an ancient quarry, where hundreds of years ago utensils, such as bowls, were carved from soapstone. In recent years an evaluation of the area was carried out to ascertain the viability of commercial soapstone quarrying.

Cunningsburgh was the birthplace of the author Captain Adam Halcrow.

Notable shipwrecks in the area include, the Roskva which drove ashore and wrecked near Mail on December 26th or 27th 1876, and the Grayfish wrecked on the Point of Pundsta on December 21st 1973.


Cunningsburgh from south
Boats at Aithsvoe Pier
the outside of the House of Helliness
South Cunningsburgh seen from Blett, with the island of Mousa and Mousa Sound in the background.
South Voxter.
Photo: Jim Work
Aithsvoe Pier
Inside House of Helliness, Cunningsburgh

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