Things to Do in & Around Hoswick

Enjoy tea and homebakes, outdoors if weather permits. Where possible, our café uses locally produced food products. Relax in a comfortable seat, upstairs in the Visitors Centre, while browsing the local information.

Once you’ve been refreshed, fed and watered you can explore the local area. Take a walk along the Hoswick burn or walk round the rompa loop. Take the kids to the Hoswick playpark which was created and put together by locals. Have a drive down to Sandsayre to have a look at the interpretive boards in the Mousa Ferry waiting room. If you are lucky you might even see Orcas hunting in the water at Sandsayre or between Broonies Taing, Hoswick Bay and Levenwick.

Hoswick WalkS

Check the website for GAETS (Garden and Ecology Trails Sandwick), to identify the choice of footpaths following the route of the ‘Hoswick burn’. ‘Gaet’ is the Shetland dialect word for path.

A limited number of printed leaflets will be available describing the paths and flora and fauna to be found on your walk.

You might choose to walk along the beach, while skimming some stones. If you have already seen the interpretation of the Hoswick Whale Case, you may think what the scene would have been on that day in 1888.

A walk through the little village of Hoswick will remind you that this is an old established community. Constructed in 1907 by Hoswick men, the drains could be flushed by releasing the valve on the Victorian pump which remains adjacent to the track and below the ‘reservoir’. Drains were flushed on Fridays when the women had to scrub the drains!

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