Hillswick

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{{Infobox UK place

| official_name= Hillswick

| label_position=left

| country= Scotland

| static_image_name= The bay at Hillswick - geograph.org.uk - 551032.jpg

| static_image_caption= The bay at Hillswick, looking across the bay with the main settlement on the far shore

| population=

| os_grid_reference= HU280769

| coordinates = {{coord|60.476|-1.489|display=inline,title}}

| post_town= SHETLAND

| postcode_area= ZE

| postcode_district= ZE2

| dial_code= 01806

| constituency_westminster= Orkney and Shetland

| civil_parish= Northmaven

| unitary_scotland= Shetland

| lieutenancy_scotland= Shetland

| constituency_scottish_parliament= Shetland

| embedded = {{Infobox lighthouse

| embed = yes

| qid = Q28465948

| name = Hillswick Lighthouse
Ura Firth
Baa Taing

| location = Hillswick
Shetland
United Kingdom

| coordinates = {{coord|60.453557|-1.496517}}

| yearbuilt = 1895 (first)

| yearlit = n/a (current)

| automated =

| yeardeactivated =

| foundation = concrete base

| construction = metal skeletal tower

| shape = quadrangular tower covered by aluminium panels with light on the top

| marking = white tower

| height = {{convert|5|m|ft}}

| focalheight = {{convert|34|m|ft}}

| lens =

| intensity =

| range = white: {{convert|9|nmi}}
red: {{convert|6|nmi}} [http://www.lighthousedigest.com/digest/database/uniquelighthouse.cfm?value=7388 Hillswick Light] Lighthouse Explorer. Retrieved 30 May 2016

| characteristic = Fl (4) WR 15s.

| fogsignal =

| racon =

| managingagent = Northern Lighthouse Board{{Cite rowlett|sht|accessdate=2016-05-30}}

}}}}

Hillswick is a small village in Northmavine, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean and lies to the north-north west of Mainland, Shetland, the most northerly group of islands in the United Kingdom. It is situated {{convert|56|km|mi|abbr=on|order=flip}} from Lerwick.{{cite web|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst628.html|title=Overview of Hillswick|publisher=Scottish Places|access-date=15 December 2014}}

There is a community shop,{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/Hillswick-Shop-441204772647846/|title=Security Check Required|website=www.facebook.com|language=en|access-date=2017-08-11}} a blacksmith, a public hall, a health centre, and a Church of Scotland kirk that is now mainly used for funerals, weddings and christenings. There is a wildlife sanctuary, situated at the historic former Hanseatic trading booth on the seafront, a small private art gallery with occasional public exhibitions, and the St Magnus Bay Hotel which offers accommodation, a bar and restaurant. A large dairy and sheep farm takes up the spectacular peninsula called Hillswick Ness, but there is public access and a signed walking route. There is a modern primary school at nearby Urafirth. A small automatic lighthouse is located 1.5 miles south of Hillswick, at the tip of the Ness.