| Official Name: | Hillswick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label Position: | left | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Static Image Name: | The bay at Hillswick - geograph.org.uk - 551032.jpg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Static Image Caption: | The bay at Hillswick, looking across the bay with the main settlement on the far shore | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Os Grid Reference: | HU280769 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 60.476°N -1.489°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Post Town: | SHETLAND | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Postcode Area: | ZE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Postcode District: | ZE2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dial Code: | 01806 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 56abbr=onNaNabbr=on from Lerwick.[3]
There is a community shop,[4] a blacksmith, a public hall, a health centre, and a Church of Scotland kirk that is now mainly used for funerals, weddings and christenings. There is a wildlife sanctuary, situated at the historic former Hanseatic trading booth on the seafront, a small private art gallery with occasional public exhibitions, and the St Magnus Bay Hotel which offers accommodation, a bar and restaurant. A large dairy and sheep farm takes up the spectacular peninsula called Hillswick Ness, but there is public access and a signed walking route. There is a modern primary school at nearby Urafirth. A small automatic lighthouse is located 1.5 miles south of Hillswick, at the tip of the Ness.