B9080 (Bay of Ulsta - Cullivoe)

This article is about B9080 on Yell in the Shetland Islands.
For the current B9080 running east from Linlithgow, see B9080.

The B9080 was a long B-road on Yell in Shetland.

The former B9080 (now B9081) at Houlland

The route started on the B9081 (now A968) at Bay of Ulsta and headed east to Burravoe then north to Mid Yell, where the B9081 was met again. It then continued north to meet the B9082 at Dalsetter at the northern end of Basta Voe before heading northeast to Cullivoe, where it ended at a triple-point of B9080/B9082/B9083. The ferry to Unst left from the nearby pier. Perhaps surprisingly, B9082 didn't extend to the pier, but on Unst there was no road at all to where the ferry then landed.

After World War II the road was upgraded to become part of the new A968 in north Shetland, the renumbering happening between 1946 and 1951. The northern section of the road was very quickly swapped with the B9082; certainly before 1955 when the B9082 is shown as an inverted U shape on maps. This change was probably made as a result of the ferry terminal having being moved south from Cullivoe to Gutcher several years earlier, indeed the routing of the A968 to Cullivoe may even be a mapping error. In 1971, the same A968 changed route again and was swapped with the B9081 in the south of the island. The former route of the B9080 is therefore now numbered as the B9081 from Ulsta to Mid Yell, then as the A968 to Dalsetter. The section north from Dalsetter to Cullivoe has been abandoned as highway altogether since 1972.

The 1922 MOT Road List defines this route as: Ulsta - Burravoe - Cullivoe