Biggings
Biggings is a village on the island of Papa Stour, in Shetland, Scotland. Papa Stour's church is situated at the south of Biggings. A homestead of Duke Haakon of Norway is thought to have been at Biggings, and archaeological digs have discovered the remains of a substantial Norse house, dating to around the 12th or 13th century.Photo: Mark Stockdale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Papa Stour Island and Papa Stour Airport.
Papa Stour Island
Island
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Papa Stour is one of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, with a population of fifteen people, some of whom immigrated after an appeal for residents in the 1970s.
Papa Stour Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Rude Health, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Papa Stour Airstrip is a small airstrip in the village of Biggings on the island of Papa Stour. Shetland, Scotland.
Forewick Holm
Islet
Photo: Robbie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Forewick Holm is a 1-hectare island in the Sound of Papa, between Papa Stour and the Mainland of Shetland. It lies adjacent to a skerry called Scarf's Head, and the two are connected at low tide.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Huxter and Sandness.
Huxter
Hamlet
Photo: Julian Paren, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Huxter is a hamlet, which is situated 2 miles south of Biggings.
Sandness
Hamlet
Photo: Cwcoutts, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandness is a headland and district in the west of Shetland Mainland, Scotland. Sandness was a civil parish, which also included the island of Papa Stour a mile northwest across Papa Sound. Sandness is situated 2 miles southeast of Biggings.
West Burrafirth
Hamlet
Photo: Robbie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Burrafirth is a hamlet, which is situated 5 miles southeast of Biggings.
Biggings
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village on Papa Stour in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
60.32531° or 60° 19′ 31″ northLongitude
-1.68095° or 1° 40′ 51″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
9CGW88G9+4JOpenStreetMap ID
node 3814776229OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to German—“Biggings” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Biggings”
- Dutch: “Biggings”
- French: “Biggings”
- German: “Biggings (Papa Stour)”
- German: “Biggings”
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