Uyeasound

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Uyeasound
Shetland

View from Uyea to Uyeasound and Uyea Sound
Location
Island: Unst
Grid reference: HP592012
Location: 60°40’48"N, -0°55’12"W
Data
Post town: Shetland
Postcode: ZE2
Dialling code: 01957
Local Government
Council: Shetland
Parliamentary
constituency:
Orkney and Shetland

Uyeasound is a village on the Isle of Unst, the northernmost island of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It takes its name from the neighbouring strait of the same name, Uyea Sound, which looks over to the Isle of Uyea

Uyeasound is home to Greenwell's Booth, a Hanseatic warehouse and Muness Castle. To the east of Uyeasound, across the ayre which separates Easter Loch from Uyea Sound, is the settlement of Clivocast. Muness Castle lies further east on the same road.

The name Uyeasound is also given to the farmstead in Aithsting parish opposite the island of Vementry, which is more usually known as Vementry Farm. It is also on Uyea Sound, hence its use of the name.

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