Twatt, Shetland

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Twatt
Shetland
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Twatt
Location
Island: Mainland
Grid reference: HU327536
Location: 60°15’57"N, 1°24’34"W
Data
Postcode: ZE2
Local Government
Council: Shetland Islands
Parliamentary
constituency:
Orkney and Shetland

Twatt is a small village in Shetland, on Mainland, along a minor road that leads from the A971 road to Clousta, north of Bixter.

The name of the village, like most place-names on Shetland, is from the Old Norse language; from þveit, meaning 'small parcel of land'. The same word produces a village of the same name on Orkney Mainland, and the element "-thwaite" in many a Yorkshire place-name.

This name featured at no. 4 of the most vulgar sounding names in Rude Britain, along with its Orkney namesake.

Road sign pointing to Twatt

   

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