Difference between revisions of "Twatt, Orkney"
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Twatt | |
Orkney | |
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Twatt Church | |
Location | |
Island: | Mainland |
Grid reference: | HY270242 |
Location: | 59°5’53"N, 3°16’26"W |
Data | |
Post town: | Orkney |
Postcode: | KW17 |
Dialling code: | 01856 |
Local Government | |
Council: | Orkney Islands |
Parliamentary constituency: |
Orkney and Shetland |
Twatt is a small village on the Mainland of Orkney. It was previously the location of a RNAS airfield, HMS Tern, 1940–1949.[1]
Name
The name 'Twatt' is, like most of the place-names of Orkney, from the Old Norse language; from þveit meaning 'small parcel of land'. The same Norse word commonly produces the place-name element 'Thwaite' in Yorkshire and the Midlands where the Norse and Danes settled heavily.
This name featured at number four in a list of the most vulgar-sounding names in Rude Britain, along with its Shetland counterpart.
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