Mossbank is a village in north east of the Shetland Mainland. It was the origional location of the inter island ferry to the island of Yell. The ferry now runs from the small port of Toft, approximately 1 mile further north. The village was profoundly changed in the early 80's when construction began on the near by Sullom Voe oil Terminal. Large amounts of temporary accommodation where errected to house the construction workforce, with the popultation expanding from the low hundreds in the early 70's to the low thousands a decade later.

The village has one primary school, Mossbank Primary School, and a youth club, The Old School Center so named as the building once housed the villages school. Junior High and High School eduction is provided at Brae High School in the village of Brae, approximately eight miles away.

Mossbank and its ajoining area of Firth are in the parish of Delting. Along with a stone memorial at the entrance to the village, many abandoned croft houses still stand on the hill across Firth Voe from Mossbank. These comemorate the infomus Delting Disaster of 21 December 1900 when twenty two local fishermen where lost during a storm, decimating the comunity.

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