🚛 Removals Company in Bixter, Shetland

About Removals Companies

A removals company handles house and office moves - packing, loading, transporting and unpacking your belongings safely and efficiently.

A proper removals firm with the right vehicles, insurance and experience takes the stress out of moving day in a way that doing it yourself rarely manages.

Get at least two quotes, check they carry goods-in-transit and public liability insurance and ask whether packing materials, disassembly and storage are included or charged extra.

About Bixter

Bixter is a small settlement at a crossroads in central-west Mainland Shetland, where the road to Walls and the west side branches off from the main route through the island.

Its position at the junction of routes heading west to Walls, north to Aith and south-east to Lerwick makes it a natural meeting point for the western communities of Mainland.

Bixter has a primary school and a community hall and serves a scattered population of crofters and families living across the surrounding parishes.

The village sits in typical Shetland moorland, with views over small lochs and the open hillside characteristic of the interior of the islands.

About Shetland

Shetland is an archipelago of around 100 islands - 16 of them inhabited - lying roughly 110 miles north of the Scottish mainland and 210 miles west of Norway, making it the most northerly part of the United Kingdom.

Lerwick is the capital and only town of any size, a compact and characterful harbour settlement that serves as the administrative, commercial and cultural centre of the islands. Around 7,000 of Shetland’s 23,000 residents live in and around the town.

Shetland’s economy has been shaped by the sea for centuries: fishing remains a major industry and the arrival of North Sea oil at the Sullom Voe terminal in the 1970s brought prosperity that was carefully managed through a charitable trust that continues to fund services and infrastructure across the islands.

The landscape is treeless, wind-scoured and dramatic - sea cliffs, voes (narrow inlets), tombolo beaches and open moorland define the character of the islands and nowhere in Shetland is more than three miles from the sea.

Shetland has a distinct cultural identity that draws on both Scottish and Norse heritage - the annual Up Helly Aa fire festival, the Shetland dialect and the fiddle music tradition are central to island life and the sense of community across the islands is strong and self-reliant.