Cunningsburgh
Cunningsburgh, formerly also known as Coningsburgh, is a new hamlet and ancient parish in the south of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. The hamlet is on the coast, nine miles south-southwest of Lerwick, about halfway between there and Sumburgh Head.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Coningsburgh”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mail and Aithsetter.
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mail is a hamlet on the island of Mainland, in the Shetland Islands, Scotland.
Aithsetter
Village
Photo: Robbie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aithsetter is a village on the island of Mainland, in Shetland, Scotland. Aithsetter is in the parish of Dunrossness, towards the north end of the district of Cunningsburgh and formerly of that ancient parish. It is nearly 10 miles from Lerwick.
Hoswick
Village
Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hoswick is a settlement in Sandwick in the south mainland of Shetland, Scotland, on the eastern part of the Dunrossness civil parish. It is separated from the rest of Sandwick by the Hoswick Burn and from Channerwick in the south by the hill on which the settlement is situated. Hoswick is situated 3½ miles south of Cunningsburgh.
Cunningsburgh
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
60.04564° or 60° 2′ 44″ northLongitude
-1.22823° or 1° 13′ 42″ westOpen location code
9CGW2QWC+7POpenStreetMap ID
node 1837970030OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
13283226Wikidata ID
Q2816653
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In Other Languages
From Basque to German—“Cunningsburgh” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cunningsburgh”
- Dutch: “Cunningsburgh”
- Faroese: “Cunningsburgh”
- French: “Cunningsburgh”
- German: “Cunningsburgh”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cunningsburgh United Free Church and Burn of Aith Broch.
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