Sandsting is a parish in theWest Mainland ofShetland,Scotland, forming a southern arm of theWalls Peninsula. After the parish of Aithsting was annexed into Sandsting in the sixteenth century, it became known as Sandsting and Aithsting parish.[1][2][3]
The parish includes the settlements ofSkeld,Westerwick andCulswick.It contains the islands ofVementry andPapa Little together with a number of smaller islets, on the south side ofSt Magnus Bay, and comprehends a mainland district of about ten miles by eight between that bay andScalloway Bay. The coast is partly bold, and cavernous; the seaboard is cut into sections by long bays; and the interior is mostly an assemblage of knolls and hillocks, with a profusion of heath and interspersions of moss.[4][5]
The area of the parish is given as 162.4 km2.[6]
Antiquities includestanding stones,burial monds andOld Norsefortifications, as well as church ruins and burial grounds. St Mary's Chapel in Sandsting was once the main church for the parish of Sandsting. The medieval church, which was built no later than the sixteenth century, now stands in ruin.[7]
Sandsting is a place name derived from the farm of Sand. Ting, from theOld NorseThing, is a reference to an assembly site or meeting place believed to have once been located within the area.[8]
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