Aywick
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Aywick is a small settlement on the east side of Yell, an island forming part of the Shetland Islands
north of Scotland
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The naturalist Bobby Tulloch
was born in Aywick.
Shetland Islands
Shetland is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies north and east of mainland Great Britain. The islands lie some to the northeast of Orkney and southeast of the Faroe Islands and form part of the division between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east. The total...
north of Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
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The naturalist Bobby Tulloch
Bobby Tulloch
Robert John Tulloch MBE was a naturalist from the Shetland Islands, in the north of Scotland. He was born on a croft at Aywick on the eastern side of Yell, as the oldest of four children, and lived much of his life in the village of Mid Yell.Tulloch started as an apprentice baker and remained in...
was born in Aywick.