Hillswick

Hillswick Lighthouse
*Ura Firth*
*Baa Taing*
Location	Hillswick; Shetland; United Kingdom
Coordinates	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Year first constructed	1895 (first)
Year first lit	n/a (current)
Foundation	concrete basement
Construction	metal skeletal tower
Tower shape	square parallelepiped tower covered by aluminium panels with light on the top
Markings / pattern	white tower
Height	5 metres (16 ft)
Focal height	34 metres (112 ft)
Light source	solar power
Range	white: 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi); red: 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi)
Characteristic	Fl (4) WR 15s.
Admiralty number	A3840
NGA number	3548
ARLHS number	SCO-096
Managing agent	Northern Lighthouse Board

**Hillswick**
	Hillswick
	240px; The bay at Hillswick, looking across the bay with the main settlement on the far shore
	Hillswick is located in Shetland Hillswick Hillswick shown within Shetland
OS grid reference	HU280769
Civil parish	Northmaven
Council area	Shetland
Lieutenancy area	Shetland
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SHETLAND
Postcode district	ZE2
Dialling code	01806
Police	Scottish
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
EU Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	Orkney and Shetland
Scottish Parliament	Shetland
	List of places UK Scotland

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Hillswick is a small village in Northmavine, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean and lies to the north-north west of Mainland, Shetland, the most northerly group of islands in the United Kingdom. It is situated 35 mi (56 km) from Lerwick.^[3] There is a community shop, a blacksmiths, a health centre, a Church of Scotland church that now only opens for births and deaths, a wildlife sanctuary and a hotel and it is surrounded by land that is used mainly to provide peat and farm sheep.

A lighthouse is located 1.5 miles south of Hillswick.

References

↑ Hillswick Light Lighthouse Explorer. Retrieved 30 May 2016
↑ Hillswick (Ura Firth, Baa taing) The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 30 May 2016
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External links

[1] Hillswick Light Lighthouse Explorer. Retrieved 30 May 2016

[2] Hillswick (Ura Firth, Baa taing) The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 30 May 2016

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v t e Shetland
Inhabited islands	Mainland Bressay Burra (East / West) Fair Isle Fetlar Foula Muckle Roe North Isles Out Skerries Papa Stour Trondra Unst Vaila Whalsay Yell
Other islands	Balta Bigga Brother Isle Colsay Hascosay Hildasay Lamba Linga, Muckle Roe Linga, Yell Mousa Noss Oxna Papa Papa Little Samphrey South Havra Uyea, Northmavine Uyea, Unst Vementry West Linga
Towns and villages	Lerwick Aith Baltasound Brae Grutness Gutcher Haroldswick Mossbank Quarff Scalloway Symbister Toft Ulsta Uyeasound Vidlin Voe Walls
Mainland Parishes	Delting Dunrossness Lerwick Nesting Northmavine Sandsting Tingwall Walls and Sandness
Maritime features	Balta Sound Bluemull Sound Burra Voe Busta Voe Calder's Geo St Magnus Bay Sullom Voe West Voe of Sumburgh Yell Sound
Extreme points (N S E W)	Out Stack The Skerry, off Fair Isle Bound Skerry Waster Hoevda, Foula
Topics	Animal breeds Etymology History Prehistory

v t e Lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board
Scotland (except principal island groups)	Ailsa Craig Ardnamurchan Bass Rock Bell Rock Buchan Ness Cape Wrath Chanonry Corsewall Covesea Skerries Crammag Head Davaar Duncansby Head Dunnet Head Fidra Fife Ness Girdle Ness Holy Island (Outer) Inchkeith Isle of May Kinnaird Head Mull of Galloway Mull of Kintyre North Rona Noss Head Pladda Rattray Head Rubh Re St Abbs Head Sanda Scurdie Ness Stoer Head Strathy Point Stroma Sule Skerry Tarbat Ness Turnberry Minor lights
The Hebrides	Barra Head Butt of Lewis Dubh Artach Eilean Glas Flannan Islands Haskeir Hyskeir Lismore Monach Neist Point Ornsay Rinns of Islay Rona Ruvaal Scarinish Skerryvore Tiumpan Head Ushenish Minor lights
Orkney	Auskerry Brough of Birsay Cantick Head Copinsay Hoy Sound (High) Hoy Sound (Low) North Ronaldsay Noup Head Pentland Skerries Start Point Tor Ness Minor lights
Shetland	Bressay Eshaness Fair Isle North Fair Isle South Firths Voe Foula Hoo Stack Muckle Flugga Out Skerries Point of Fethaland Sumburgh Head Ve Skerries Minor lights
Isle of Man	Chicken Rock Douglas Head Langness (minor light) Maughold Head Point of Ayre Thousla Rock (minor light)

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Hillswick
240px The bay at Hillswick, looking across the bay with the main settlement on the far shore
Hillswick is located in Shetland Hillswick Hillswick shown within Shetland
OS grid reference	HU280769
Civil parish	Northmaven
Council area	Shetland
Lieutenancy area	Shetland
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SHETLAND
Postcode district	ZE2
Dialling code	01806
Police	Scottish
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
EU Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	Orkney and Shetland
Scottish Parliament	Shetland
List of places UK Scotland

Location	Hillswick Shetland United Kingdom
Coordinates	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Year first constructed	1895 (first)
Year first lit	n/a (current)
Foundation	concrete basement
Construction	metal skeletal tower
Tower shape	square parallelepiped tower covered by aluminium panels with light on the top
Markings / pattern	white tower
Height	5 metres (16 ft)
Focal height	34 metres (112 ft)
Light source	solar power
Range	white: 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) red: 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) ^[1]
Characteristic	Fl (4) WR 15s.
Admiralty number	A3840
NGA number	3548
ARLHS number	SCO-096
Managing agent	Northern Lighthouse Board^[2]