Weisdale

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Name: Weisdale
Weisdale Map.jpg
UK Grid Reference: HU395538
Distance from Lerwick by road: 10 miles
Community Council: Tingwall, Whiteness, & Weisdale
Google Street View:
Picture from the 50's or 60's taken from above Sound, showing Kalliness in the centre of the picture, with Kallibrig to the left, before the new estates were built.
Beyond Kalliness is the Hellister Loch.
On the nearest shore is the graveyard at Sound and the ruins of the old Haa of Sound.
Photo from Shetland Museum and Archives.
Kalliness
Kallibrig
Old picture of Hellister, Weisdale

The village of Weisdale lies approximately 10 miles west of Lerwick on the road to the West Mainland, at the east side of Weisdale Voe. The main housing estate is Kalliness. Other notable housing areas are Kallibrig and, Upper and Lower Hellister.
In recent years there have been several instances of dolphins becoming stranded in Weisdale Voe.

Weisdale is also the name given to the surrounding parish, which extends from Gruti Field in the north where it borders Aithsting and Delting, to the north road eastwards in Pettadale bordering Nesting, to Russa Ness along the ridge of the Weisdale hills, and Strom in the south east, where it borders Tingwall. Weisdale Kirk is a little north of the voehead.

The Weisdale valley was the scene of a series of evictions in favour of sheep in the 19th Century, a subject dealt with in John J. Graham's fiction.

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