Bruray is one of the three Out Skerries islands of Shetland, and contains Scotland's most easterly settlement.

The Skerries Bridge was built in 1957 to provide a fixed link from Bruray to the neighbouring and larger island of Housay.

There is little peat on the Out Skerries, so the residents have been granted rights to cut in on Whalsay.

[3] A ferry connects the Out Skerries with Vidlin and Lerwick on the Shetland Mainland.

The crofting community have been offered the opportunity to register their interest in acquiring the property but have formally declined from doing so.