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Hillswick

Hillswick is a small village on the Mainland of the . It's the main settlement on the Northmavine peninsula, connected to the rest of Mainland by the road along Mavis Grind, the narrow isthmus by the village of - so narrow you can almost hurl a stone from the Atlantic Ocean to the North Sea side.
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Hillswick

Latitude
60.4765° or 60° 28′ 36″ north
Longitude
-1.4876° or 1° 29′ 15″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
Open location code
9CGWFGG6+JX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 213506752
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2646885
Wiki­data ID
Q5764039
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Russian—“Hillswick” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Hillswick”
  • Catalan: “Hillswick”
  • Dutch: “Hillswick”
  • French: “Hillswick”
  • German: “Hillswick”
  • Portuguese: “Hillswick”
  • Russian: “Хиллсуик”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Hillswick”. Photo: Chris Combe, CC BY 2.0.