Hoswick
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| Name: | Hoswick |
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| Distance from Lerwick by road: | 14 miles |
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Hoswick is a village, west of Sandwick in Shetland's South Mainland.
In the middle of the village is its most striking building, the Hoswick Visitor Centre, which was formerly a weaving shed. The beach was the site of the whale 'caa' which resulted in the Hoswick Whale Case of 1888-90.
