Twatt, Orkney

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Twatt
Orkney
Twatt Church, Birsay, Orkney - geograph.org.uk - 52001.jpg
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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