Cunningsburgh
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Cunningsburgh, formerly also known as Coningsburgh ( meaning "King's castle"), is a new hamlet and ancient parish in the south of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. The hamlet is on the coast, south-southwest of Lerwick, about halfway between there and Sumburgh Head. The parish was merged with Dunrossness and Sandwick in 1891. It is on the A970 road. There is a primary school, a marina, a community shop, a public hall, a history centre, a touring park, and a United Free Church of Scotland kirk.
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- Locality
- Aithsetter
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Dunrossness
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Aithsetter.jpg
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- Commons category
- Cunningsburgh
- located in/on physical feature
- Shetland Islands
- OS grid reference
- HU430301
- historic county
- Shetland Islands
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Cunningsburgh, formerly also known as Coningsburgh ( meaning "King's castle"), is a new hamlet and ancient parish in the south of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. The hamlet is on the coast, south-southwest of Lerwick, about halfway between there and Sumburgh Head. The parish was merged with Dunrossness and Sandwick in 1891. It is on the A970 road. There is a primary school, a marina, a community shop, a public hall, a history centre, a touring park, and a United Free Church of Scotland kirk.
Amongst the settlements in the parish are Aithsetter, Ocraquoy, and Gord.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cunningsburgh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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