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Ollaberry

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OS grid reference
  
HU362804

Country
  
Post town
  
SHETLAND

Local time
  
Friday 5:39 AM

Council area
  
Lieutenancy area
  
Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Postcode district
  
ZE2

Dialling code
  
01595

Civil parish
  
Ollaberry

Weather
  
7°C, Wind SW at 39 km/h, 83% Humidity

Ollaberry (Old Norse: Olafrsberg, meaning Olaf's Hill) is a settlement on Mainland, Shetland on the west shore of Yell Sound. The land round here is fertile by Shetland standards.

Map of Ollaberry, Shetland, UK

Andrew Cheyne, the father of Sir William Cheyne, 1st Baronet the famous surgeon was from here. Sir William himself was born at sea off Tasmania.

References

Ollaberry Wikipedia


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