Marrister is a settlement on the west coast of
Whalsay
Whalsay ( sco, Whalsa; non, Hvalsey or ''Hvals-øy'', meaning 'Whale Island') is the sixth largest of the Shetland Islands in the north of Scotland.
Geography
Whalsay, also known as "The Bonnie Isle", is a peat-covered island in the Shetland I ...
in the parish of
Nesting in the
Shetland islands of Scotland. It looks across
Linga Sound to the island of
West Linga.
History
Marrister was occupied in Viking times and a gold Viking ring was unearthed there.
In the 19th century and early 20th century it was associated with the Smith family.
A large flat rock off Marrister is known as the
Skate of Marrister. In the 1870s,
Robert Cowie
Robert Cowie (1842–1874) was a British physician and author.
Life
He was born in 1842 at Lerwick, the capital of the Shetland Islands, where both his father and uncle were well-known medical practitioners. He was educated partly at Aberdeen, w ...
mentioned the "neat manse and still neater church" of Marrister, which had been recently built.
References
External links
Canmore - Whalsay, Marrister site record
Villages in Whalsay
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