Whiteness (Old Norse: Hvitanes, white headland) is a village in Tingwall parish, Shetland Islands, Scotland, on Mainland.

[1] It is also an ancient civil parish that was merged with Tingwall in 1891.

The Whiteness hall is directly next to the primary school.

This article incorporates text from - Wilson, Rev.

John The Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1882) Published by W. & A.K.