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OS grid reference
  
HU309449

Country
  
Post town
  
SHETLAND

Local time
  
Thursday 12:01 PM

Council area
  
Lieutenancy area
  
Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Postcode district
  
ZE2

Dialling code
  
01595

Civil parish
  

Weather
  
7°C, Wind W at 39 km/h, 68% Humidity

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Skeld, (Old Norse: Skjolðr, Shield or shelter) is a village on the south side of the West Shetland Mainland. The main village is also referred to as Easter Skeld, while the western end of the settlement, about a mile away, is known as Wester Skeld. The council housing estate in Skeld is called Grindybrecks.it also has a school on a hill

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Map of Skeld, Shetland, UK

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Notable residents

The great 20th-century poet Vagaland's father was from Skeld, and he was born Thomas Alexander Robertson at nearby Westerwick. Vagaland retained a love for and a sense of belonging to this part of Shetland, though he moved to Walls as a small child.

Erraid Davies, swimmer and bronze medallist at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, lives in Skeld.

References

Skeld Wikipedia


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