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Upperdale
Chapel (12th Century)(Possible)
Site Name Upperdale
Classification Chapel (12th Century)(Possible)
Canmore ID 237
Site Number HU15SE 5
NGR HU 1946 5301
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/237
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Walls And Sandness
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU15SE 5 1946 5301.
(HU 1943 5305) Chapel (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903)
'A cultivated piece of ground known to be the site of an ancient Romish chapel belonging to about the twelfth or thirteenth century. ... It is not considered improbable that there was a burial ground in connection with this chapel at one time.
Name Book 1878
There is now no trace of this chapel or any associated burial-ground although the site is still known locally.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 13 June 1968
