On the north of the parish of Northmavine, the low hilly ridges, formed by the sea into deep fissures or caverns, terminate in a line of ragged coast, agreeably diversified by a long narrow peninsula of green land jutting out far into the Northern Ocean, which is named Fiedeland. Every where the coast is awfully wild, the peninsula is broken on each side into steep precipes, exhibiting now and then a gaping chasm, through which the sea struggles, while numerous stacks rise from the surface of a turbulent ocean, the waves beating around them in angry and tumultuous roar.
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On the narrow isthmus of low marshy land, that connects the peninsula of Feideland to the Mainland, is interspersed, with all the disorder of a gypsey encampment, a number of these savage huts named summer lodges, and in the centre of them is a substantial booth, used by a factor for curing fish.
Hibbert/Shetland, 1822
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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