Official Name: | Uusküla |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Estonia |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Lääne County |
Subdivision Type2: | Parish |
Subdivision Name2: | Lääne-Nigula Parish |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Uusküla is a village in Lääne-Nigula Parish, Lääne County, in western Estonia.[1]
Uusküla was attested in written sources as Neue Dorff Lechtigal in 1726 and Uekülla in 1798. The name literally means 'new village'. Semantically, it is paired with neighboring Vanaküla (literally, 'old village') 1km (01miles) to the northwest.[2]