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Ordnance Survey - Shetland county, OS Name Books - Shetland county - Volume 10 - Parishes of Dunrossness and Sandwick, OS1/31/10

Continued entries/extra info

Parish of Dunrossness -- Shetland
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[Situation - cross-reference to Cruive Geo]
+ Cruive Geo is entirely a supposition of the examiner: Cruive is
not a Shetland word at all, being the term in use in the
Highlands for a salmon net stretched across a bay.
Croo Geo = sheep-fold geo or Cattlefold Geo from Kro Norse for a pen or fold.

[List of Names - under Longa Berg]
Marginal

[List of Names - under St Ninian's Isle]
Marginal

[Signed] Robert H. Watson C/A. [Civilian Assisatant]

Ordnance Survey - Shetland county, OS Name Books - Shetland county - Volume 10 - Parishes of Dunrossness and Sandwick, OS1/31/10

This volume contains information on place names found in the parishes of Dunrossness, and Sandwick.

Ordnance Survey - Shetland county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Shetland, which is in the north of Scotland.

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