South Bressay

The area south of the Mail crossroads contains many of the crofts and provides fine views of Lerwick. The main population centre is around the Glebe. Behind the houses a rough track ascends the Ward of Bressay (locally known as lea Wart) with its prominent TV signal transmitter masts. On a clear day there are spectacular views of Bressay, Lerwick and the distant islands from the summit.

Past Kirkabister, the site of another long vanished ancient church, the road leads down to the Bressay Lighthouse. Built in 1858 by the famous Stevenson brothers the light is now automatic and there are plans to convert some of the buildings into a marine heritage centre.

South of the lighthouse there is a picturesque natural arch and then the steep cliffs of the Ord and the long finger of the Bard with the remains of another World War I gun.
Bressay lighthouse

Mail - Voeside

Before 1975 the old Mail pier (mel is the Norse word for sand) was used by the small Bressay ferry.