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Toft
Toft Pier, Shetland - geograph.org.uk - 6335.jpg
The ferry MV Dagalien approaching Toft Pier. This is the ferry across Yell Sound to the island of Yell.
OS grid reference HU433765
Civil parish
  • Delting
Council area
Lieutenancy area
Country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SHETLAND
Postcode district ZE2
Dialling code 01957
Police Northern
Fire Highlands and Islands
Ambulance Scottish
EU Parliament Scotland
UK Parliament
  • Orkney and Shetland
Scottish Parliament
  • Shetland
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Scotland
60°28′16″N 1°12′40″W / 60.471°N 1.211°W / 60.471; -1.211Coordinates: 60°28′16″N 1°12′40″W / 60.471°N 1.211°W / 60.471; -1.211

Toft is a ferry port approximately one mile north of Mossbank on Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. From here, a car ferry service to Ulsta on the island of Yell operates. Toft is located in the parish of Delting.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s there was a large workers camp situated here housing thousands of men who were building the Sullom Voe Terminal.

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