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History in the Outer Hebrides

  1. Explore Uist through time with a brand new Augmented Reality archaeology app which lets you see the original sites as they would have been 6000 years ago, in the modern day landscape.
  2. Sea bindweed - bonnie pronce charlies flower, eriskay
    Official tourist guide to the Bonnie Prince Charlie trail in the Outer Hebrides

Island Highlights

Clan Mackenzie Monument at Seaforth Head

Kinloch Historical Society is located on the main road between Stornoway and Tarbert, A859. It includes a museum and archive covering various aspects of community life, and information about the…

Grimsay Community Association (GCA) - Heritage Centre

Come and visit the only Maritime Museum in the Outer Hebrides and find out about the Stewart family who built beautiful, clinker work boats on Grimsay over the course of 150 years. You’ll find the…

Calanais Standing Stones

The new Calanais Visitor Centre reopens in 2026 with much improved facilities. Until then the visitor centre site is entirely closed for construction works, but please note, the Calanais Standing…

Aerial photo of the Taigh Chearsabhagh building, looking towards Lochmaddy Pier and Lee.

Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre is a place where people can meet, share ideas, learn new skills and experience cultural interpretation that is imaginative and stimulating.

The Harris Tweed® Story Room stages to make yarn

Embark on a guided tour that takes you through the timeline of the industrial history and development of the Harris Tweed Industry. Watch demonstrations and receive hands-on weaving experience

Delve into the past....

  1. Gearannan Blackhouse village, lewis
    Gearrannan (Garenin) is a restored blackhouse village on the west side of the Isle of Lewis
    1. 1st January 202531st December 2025
  2. St Clements Church is situated in the village of Rodel, South Harris. Construction started around 1520 by Alexander MacLeod of Dunvegan and Harris.
    1. Our Lady of the Isles is a statue of the Madonna and Child by sculptor Hew Lorimer. Erected in 1957 on the west slope of Reuval overlooking the sea, it is a fantastic viewpoint.
    2. A monument in memory of those lost in the Annie Jane maritime disaster in 1853.
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      Sollas, Isle Of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS6 5BX

      Isle Of North Uist

      Vallay is a beautiful desserted tidal island and is accessible at low tide from Sollas. Tidal information is available from the Tourist Information Centre in Lochmaddy.

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      Milton, Isle Of South Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS8 5RY

      Isle Of South Uist

      Neolithic chambered cairn.

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      South Dell, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0SP

      Isle Of Lewis

      North Rona is an uninhabited, isolated island 44 miles in the open sea north of the Butt of Lewis, and is seldom visited except by occasional private vessels. But its isolation has preserved the archaeological sites of the island in a relatively undi

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      Bornish, Isle Of South Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS8 5SA

      Isle Of South Uist

      The broch of Dùn Mhulan was inhabited during the Iron Age. This large tower-like house was built around 150 BC, originally on an island within a freshwater loch, long before the open sea had broken through.

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      Berneray, Isle Of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS6 5BJ

      Isle Of North Uist

      Giant Mackaskill Monument is located ti the South of Berneray.

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    6. Bunavoneader Whaling Station

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      Bunavoneader, Isle Of Harris, Outer Hebrides, HS3 3AL

      Isle Of Harris

      Situated at the foot of the southern slopes of the North Harris mountains, the remains of a 20th century industrial site nestle between the road and the shore of Loch Bun Abhainn Eadarra.

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    7. Inside the ruins of Eaglais na h-Aoidhe

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      Point, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0PD

      Isle Of Lewis

      Eaglais na h-Aoidhe (Church of the Eye, or isthmus) was the principal church of medieval Lewis, probably built in the later 14th century by the new Macleod dynasty as their religious centre on the Island.

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      Lochmaddy, Isle Of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS6 5AE

      Isle Of North Uist

      The Mosaic Mackerel sculpture by Rosalind Waites forms part of the Uist Sculpture Trail.

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    9. Gress Raiders Monument, Isle of Lewis

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      Gress, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0LQ

      Isle Of Lewis

      Coll and Gress communities were at the centre of a struggle for the rights of crofters against the power of landowners, a struggle that helped change Scottish history. The monument stands near a bridge across the River Gress (Abhainn Ghriais), the site of a dramatic land raid.

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      Bornish, Isle Of South Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS8 5SA

      Isle Of South Uist

      South Uist War Memorial

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      Port Of Ness, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0XA

      Isle Of Lewis

      Dùn Èistean is traditionally known as the stronghold of the Clan Morrison. Archaeological excavation and survey work has found evidence for a defended medieval settlement on the island, with dwellings, storage buildings, a defensive wall and a tow.

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      Scalpay, Isle Of Scalpay, Outer Hebrides, HS4 3XU

      Isle Of Scalpay

      The Old Manse, now Two Harbours Guest House, is built on the site of the house Prince charlie sheltered in after the battle of Culloden in 1746.

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      Shawbost, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9BQ

      Isle Of Lewis

      Reconstructed Norse Mill

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      Griminish, Isle Of Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, HS7 5QA

      Isle Of Benbecula

      Benbecula War Memorial

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      Grimsay, Isle Of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS6 5HY

      Isle Of North Uist

      Remains of a wheelhouse dating back to the iron age can be seen in Grimsay.

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      Bentangaval, Isle Of Barra, Outer Hebrides, HS9 5XN

      Isle Of Barra

      Neolithic people settled here around 4000 BC and built an artificial platform behind a terrace wall. A later blackhouse stands on part of this platform, but behind it, Neolithic remains were found almost undisturbed.

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    17. Morsgail

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      Morsgail, Uig, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9JH

      Uig, Isle Of Lewis

      In "The Chessmen", Fin and Whistler come across a disappearing loch which burst its banks and drained overnight revealing a small plane at the bottom of what would have been the loch.

      Add Peter May's Lewis Thrillers - Beehive Dwellings and Disappearing Loch to your Itinerary

    18. Dursainean Chambered Cairn interpretation board

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      Garrabost, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0PN

      Isle Of Lewis

      This communal burial tomb would have been an important highly visible monument of the first farming people who lived in the peninsula of An Rubha in the Neolithic period.

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