B9084

The B9084 is a very short road in the south of Unst.

Route

The start of the B9084 from the A968

The route starts at a wide T junction on the A968 set amongst the moorland fields on the south of Unst. It heads south, crossing a cattle grid and dropping to single track as it winds past a few houses to reach the village of Uyeasound, with the open water of the sound visible ahead. The village is not large, little more than a few houses clustered round the old harbour, and a few more strung along the coast in either direction. The road ends by the harbour, however, with the island of Uyea straight ahead.

History

The B9084 in 1932

Back in 1922, the B9084 ran for about 11 miles, almost the full length of Unst. From Uyeasound it headed north through Baltasound and Haroldswick to terminate at Norwick as the most northerly classified road in the British Isles. At the time, Uyeasound was the ferry port for the crossing between Unst and Yell, but this changed in the 1950s with Belmont Pier developed as the new ferry pier.

After World War II the A968 was inaugurated in north Shetland; this took over the majority of the B9084, but crosses the new ferry route to Belmont, leaving only the short distance into Uyeasound as the B9084. The A968 actually ends in Haroldswick, so the last few miles of the ex-B9084 at the north end of the island became the B9087.

The 1922 MOT Road List defines this route as: Uyeasound - Norwick