OS grid reference HU477654 Country Scotland Post town SHETLAND Local time Monday 4:49 AM Council area Shetland | Lieutenancy area Shetland Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district ZE2 Dialling code 01806 Civil parish Nesting, Shetland | |
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Vidlin (from Old Norse: Vaðill meaning a ford), is a small village located on Mainland Shetland, Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Nesting.
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Map of Vidlin, Shetland, UK
History
It is at the head of Vidlin Voe, and is the modern heart of the old parish of Lunnasting, which centred on the early church at Lunna on Lunna Ness.
The Lunnasting stone, which bears an undeciphered Pictish ogham inscription was found nearby and donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in 1876.
Notable people
Steven Robertson is a theatre and film actor who has appeared in a number of successful films. He was born in Vidlin and attended the local school.
The poet Rhoda Bulter's mother came from Skelberry in Lunnasting, and she herself lived there for two crucially formative years when young.
The Walls poet Christine de Luca has written a memoir and a series of poems about the branch of her family which hailed from Vidlin, on her father Alexander Pearson's side, entitled Dreams in Time's Ocean (2004).