Unst: Halligarth House

Date April 2013

Event ID 959857

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Nts Note

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The house at Halligarth is of architectural interest and its significance is enhanced by the associations with the Saxby and Edmonston families. It was the birthplace in 1795 of Laurence Edmonston, a distinguished naturalist and author of many papers on natural history. Traces of a small

designed landscape, shown on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map, still survive to the south of the house.

Information from NTS (SS) April 2013