Forsan, Shetland
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Forsan is a waterfall on the island of Shetland in Scotland. It lies in the Clift Hills on the Burn of Mail near its confluence with the Burn of the Run beneath Scroo hill in the Cunningsburgh
district south of Lerwick
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The name is probably derived from Old Norse
in which fors or foss means waterfall.
Cunningsburgh
Cunningsburgh, formerly also known as Coningsburgh , is a hamlet and ancient parish in the south of Mainland, Shetland. The hamlet is on the coast, nine miles south south west of Lerwick, about half way between there and Sumburgh Head. The parish was merged with Dunrossness and Sandwick...
district south of Lerwick
Lerwick
Lerwick is the capital and main port of the Shetland Islands, Scotland, located more than 100 miles off the north coast of mainland Scotland on the east coast of the Shetland Mainland...
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The name is probably derived from Old Norse
Old Norse
Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
in which fors or foss means waterfall.