Free drop-in sessions - all welcome.
Learning Room, Shetland Museum & Archives
Tuesday 9 December, 4–5pm
Thursday 11 December, 1–2pm
From 2001 to 2017, Shetland Amenity Trust worked with individuals and community groups across the isles to record local place-names - many of which had never appeared on maps before but had been passed down orally for generations.
More than 12,000 names have now been added to digital maps, with more still to verify, standardise, and include. We’re now looking to share this resource more widely and gather your views on how the information should be presented and searched.
This December, we’re hosting two demonstration sessions at Shetland Museum & Archives, where you can explore the developing place-names map and learn how the information has been gathered and organised.
During the sessions, you’ll also be able to look through locally used names that haven’t appeared on maps before, see examples of features such as baas, lochs, rigs and noosts, and find out more about the meanings of key place-name elements.
