Tingwall

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Looking north over Loch of Asta and Loch of Tingwall towards Tingwall church (1988)

Crypt of the former Tingwall church on the site of Tingwall cemetery

The Murder Stone, with windmills in background.

Tingwall ( Old Norse : Þingvöllr = field of the parliament ), is in the centre of the Shetland Mainland, and extends north as far as Girlsta. The Tingwall valley extends north from near Scalloway to Laxfirth.

Tingwall includes the settlements of Veensgarth and Gott, and the Vallafield housing estate. It is also the name of one of the old parishes of Shetland, the centre of which was the Tingwall Kirk.

Tingwall was the home from the 1920s of the literary brothers Laurence I. Graham and the late John J. Graham.