Unst, Wick

A survey of deserted settlements in Unst by June Owers. The survey includes photographs, sketches and historical information.

Uyeasound Primary School visited the abandondeValindUyeasound Primary School visited the abandonded croft at Valind to take a GPS plot and photographs to show the location and current condition of the croft recorded previously by June Owers.d croft at to take a GPS plot and photographs to show the location and current condition of the croft recorded previously by June Owers.

Valind is situated 380m west of Lund House and 500m South of St Olav's church, 30m above sea level on top of a knowe surrounded by good pasture land with a water collect on the north side.

The 6 interconnected structures are all aligned East-West. The main structure is 9.75m by 4.8m. with a wall-height drystone wall forming an enclosure on the N side with the NE corner collapsed. The structure on the west end is narrower, c10m by 3m, with the south wall set into the brae to height of the wall. The structure on the south side has a sucken concrete pit that was used for dipping sheep until the late 1970s.

A plan of Valind was sketched by June Owers in her survey of abandoned crofts on Unst (1976).

Visited by the Uyeasound Primary School as part of their SRP project to update the record of abandoned croft house buildings drawn and photographed by June Owers during the 1970s and 1980s.