Forsan

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Forsan
Shetland
River: Burn of Mail
HU407291
Co-ordinates: 60°2’41"N, 1°16’16"W

Forsan is a waterfall in Cunningsburgh Parish, south of Lerwick on the mainland of the Mainland, the chief island of Shetland. It lies on the course of the Burn of Mail, in the Clift Hills, near the buirn's meeting with the Burn of the Run beneath Scroo Hill

The name of the waterfall is from Old Norse forsen or fossen, meaning 'the waterfall'.

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