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| Clickimin Broch | Nr Lerwick | Broch | | A good example of a broch tower with associated secondary buildings of Iron Age date. |
| Fair Isle | Fair Isle | Island | | Despite its far-flung location and air of peaceful seclusion, Fair Isle is a hive of industry. The island is famous for its patterned knitwear which is still sold worldwide. Today, the island’s craftspeople are busy with boat-building, spinning and weaving, and the manufacture of furniture and stained-glass windows. |
| Fort Charlotte | Lerwick | Fort | | A five-sided artillery fort with bastions projecting from each corner. The walls are high and massive. It was built in 1665 to protect the Sound of Bressay from the Dutch, but taken by them and burned in 1673. It was rebuilt in 1781. |
| Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement | Sumburgh | Prehistoric Site | | Jarlshof provides an insight into the way of life of the inhabitants at particularly interesting periods – the late Bronze Age, Iron Age, Pictish era, Norse era and the Middle Ages. It includes oval-shaped Bronze Age houses, Iron Age broch and wheelhouses, Viking long houses, medieval farmstead and 16th century laird’s house. |
| Mousa Broch | Mousa Island | Broch | | The finest surviving Iron Age broch tower. It stands to a height of over 13.3 metres. |
| Muness Castle | Unst | Castle | | A late 16th-century tower house with circular towers at diagonally opposite corners. The northernmost castle in the British Isles, Muness has remarkably fine architectural details. |
| Ness of Burgi | Scatness | Prehistoric Site | | A defensive stone-built blockhouse, probably of Iron Age date, with some features resembling a broch. Access is difficult. |
| Scalloway Castle | Scalloway | Castle | | A fine castellated mansion built in 1600 by Patrick Stewart, Earl of Orkney, who was notorious for his cruelty. |
| Staneydale Temple | Bixter | Prehistoric Site | | A Neolithic hall, heel-shaped externally, and containing a large oval chamber. Around it are ruins of houses, walls and cairns of the same period. |
| Unst Heritage Centre | Unst | Island | | Located just beyond mainland Shetland, this is the Trust’s most northerly estate. It is made up of ten parcels of land, eight of which are on Unst. The smallest is the 12ha (30a) island of Daaey, off Fetlar. |
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| Benhoga Gallery | Weisdale | | Burland Croft Trail | Trondra | | Croft House Museum | Boddam | | Fair Isle Lodge & Bird Observatory | Fair Isle | | Fetlar Interpretive Centre | Fetlar | | Hermaness National Nature Reserve Visitor Centre | Burrafirth, Unst | | Hoswick Visitors Centre | Sandwick | | Isleburgh Exhibition | Lerwick | | Lerwick Tourist Information Centre | Lerwick | | Muckle Flugga & Out Stack | Unst | | Noss National Nature Reserve | Noss Island | | Old Haa Visitor Centre | Yell | | Quendale Water Mill | Quendale | | Scalloway Museum | Scalloway | | Shetland Croft House Museum | Dunrossness | | Shetland Glass | Scalloway | | Shetland Museum | Lerwick | | Shetland Textile Working Museum | Weisdale | | Shetlands Islands Tourism | Lerwick | | Skara Brae | Stromness | | Stromness Tourist Information Centre | Stromness | | Sumburgh Airport | Sumburgh | | Swan Trust, The | Gulberwick | | Tangwick Haa Museum | Eshaness | | Tingwall Agricultural Museum | Gott | | Tingwall Airport | Gott | | Unst Boat Haven | Unst | | Warp & Weft Visitor Centre | Sandwick |
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