Kergord House

United Kingdom / Scotland / Brae /
 house, place with historical importance, interesting place

Build in the 1850s out of the stones of surrounding croft houses, this was originally the Haa of Flemington.

Dr Munro started planting trees around the site in 1908.*

It was used during WW2 as headquarters for the Shetland Bus.
www.shetland-heritage.co.uk/shetlandbus/pages/kergord.h...

BP owned it for a while.

*A Shetland Bird Population: Kergord Plantations
L. S. V. Venables, U. M. Venables
Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 17, No. 1 (May, 1948) , pp. 66-74
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