Official Name: | Whiteness |
Label Position: | top |
Country: | Scotland |
Static Image Name: | Whiteness Voe - geograph.org.uk - 2805.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Whiteness Voe |
Os Grid Reference: | HU386443 |
Coordinates: | 60.182°N -1.304°W |
Post Town: | SHETLAND |
Postcode Area: | ZE |
Postcode District: | ZE2 |
Dial Code: | 01595 |
Whiteness (Norse, Old: Hvitanes, white headland) is a village in Tingwall parish, Shetland Islands, Scotland, on Mainland.[1] It is also an ancient civil parish that was merged with Tingwall in 1891.
The village lies seven miles north north west of Lerwick. The parish is now merged with Tingwall. The village has a Methodist church located in South Whiteness and Whiteness Primary School faces Whitedale F.C.'s Football Pitch, Strom. The Whiteness hall is directly next to the primary school.
This article incorporates text from -Wilson, Rev. John The Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1882) Published by W. & A.K. Johnstone