IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Sandwick, SHETLAND, ZE2 9HR
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to ZE2 9HR by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (29 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Details
Distance
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The hoverfly Eupeodes corollae, Hoswick
This species is a migrant in Shetland, here feeding on Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium).
Image: © Mike Pennington
Taken: 24 Jul 2016
0.02 miles
4
Hoswick: postbox № ZE2 119
A standard Elizabeth II-reign postbox mounted on a metal pole and, unusually for these parts, without a slot flap to keep rain and wildlife out.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 10 Jul 2013
0.02 miles
6
Hoswick Visitor Centre
Hoswick Visitor Centre is housed in a former Shetland Tweed weaving shed (https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/shetland/hoswickvisitorcentre/index.html Undiscovered Scotland). The building contains a cafe, gift shop, weaving exhibits, interpretative local history displays and a large collection of vintage radios. It is home to the Sandwick History Group (http://www.shetlandheritageassociation.com/members/south-mainland/sandwick-history-group Shetland Heritage Association).
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 20 Sep 2018
0.03 miles
7
Entrance to Hoswick Visitor Centre
'The Visitor Centre provides a welcoming venue for locals and visitors to the area. The Café provides delicious home bakes and light lunches all made to order as well as space to display items collected and preserved.' https://www.shetlandheritageassociation.com/members/south-mainland/hoswick-visitor-centre
Unfortunately when we arrived, cold and wet from the Mousa ferry, they had been busy and had run out of soup and coffee!
Image: © Russel Wills
Taken: 31 May 2019
0.03 miles
8
Hoswick Gospel Hall (detail)
Notice in the window of Image
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 20 Sep 2018
0.04 miles
9
Hoswick Gospel Hall
Corrugated metal gospel hall in the village of Hoswick.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 20 Sep 2018
0.04 miles
10
Hoswick Visitor Centre and village
The Visitor Centre has displays of early machines from the weaving industry, together with a large collection of vintage radios (domestic and 2nd World War military radio sets much beloved of radio amateurs in the 1950s and 1960s, including HRO, AR88D, 19 Set). It also has a cafe. Good for rainy days such as illustrated here!
Image: © Ken Craig
Taken: 6 Aug 2007
0.04 miles