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Beach
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Barvas beach, Barvas, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0QRIsle of Lewis
A good surfing beach with good access and pleasant walks.
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Flora and Fauna - Machair
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Barvas, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9NBIsle of Lewis
Medium, slim plant with pale to deep purple spike of flowers.
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Flora and Fauna - Machair
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Barvas, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0XRIsle of Lewis
Low to medium growing with globular flowerheads. Found on coastal grassland and agricultural land
more than 5 miles
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Architectural Trail
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Lews Castle Grounds, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0XRStornoway, Isle of Lewis
Built in 1847-51 in the Neo-Gothic style popular in the Victorian era by Sir James Matheson and substantially altered by Lord Leverhulme. After being used as a school, it re-opened in 2016.
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Architectural Trail
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Carloway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9AAIsle of Lewis
A broch is an iron-aged drystone hollow-walled structure found only in Scotland. Dun Carloway, was likely built in 1st Century AD.
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Architectural Trail
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Achmore, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9DUIsle of Lewis
Inspired by the traditional Hebridean summer dwellings or ‘airidhs’. The larch-clad house is both colourful and sculptural with dramatic views over the Harris hills. (Private residence: not open to the public).
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Architectural Trail
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Amhuinnsuidh, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, HS3 3ASTelephone
01859 560 200Isle of Harris
Amhuinnsuidhe Castle was built in 1865 in the Scottish Baronial style by the architect David Bryce and the 7th Earl of Dunmore. Access by prior arrangement only.
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Architectural Trail
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Tarbert, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, HS3 3DJIsle of Harris
Designed by John R. Coleman Architects, it occupies a strategic position in Tarbert, visible to everyone arriving there.
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Architectural Trail
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Ardinashaig, Scalpay, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, HS4 3XZScalpay, Isle of Harris
Scalpay Bridge opened in 1997 and was designed by Halcrow Crouch. It replaced a bow loaded ferry as Scalpay’s link to Harris.
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Architectural Trail
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Pairc Niseaboist, Horgabost, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, HS3 3AETelephone
01859 503900Isle of Harris
Translated from Gaelic, Talla na Mara means the Centre by the sea. Overlooking Niseabost beach, the Centre boasts one of the most photographed locations in the Outer Hebrides.
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Architectural Trail
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Borve, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, HS3 3HTIsle of Harris
Inspired by Scottish coastal Iron Age buildings. Designed by Stuart Bagshaw (Private residence, please view from the road)
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Architectural Trail
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Northton, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, HS3 3JATelephone
07876 340416Isle of Harris
A stone building reminiscent of a Blackhouse, designed by Stuart Bagshaw in 1999 as an interpretive centre of William MacGillivray, an ornithologist from Harris.
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Architectural Trail
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Rodel, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, HS5 3TWIsle of Harris
Large iron-roofed 18th-century structure, it is thought to have been a store or ‘keeping house’ with two floors and three bays.
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Architectural Trail
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Rodel, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, HS5 3TWIsle of Harris
St. Clement’s earliest sections date to the 15th Century and it is the finest pre-reformation church in the Hebrides. Inside is one of the most ambitious and richly-carved tombs of the time for the Macleod clan chief.
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Architectural Trail
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Castle Grounds, Stornoway, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0XRIsle Of Lewis
Built in 1847-51 in the Neo-Gothic style popular in the Victorian era by Sir James Matheson and substantially altered by Lord Leverhulme.
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Architectural Trail
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Berneray, Isle of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS6 5BQIsle of North Uist
These two converted blackhouses now form the Berneray hostel site of the Gatliff Trust and lie in a Conservation Area. The original croft houses probably dated from the 19th Century.
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Architectural Trail
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Kenneth Street, Stornoway, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS1 2DSIsle Of Lewis
An Lanntair’s award winning building, designed by Nicoll Russell Studios, is inspired by its name, which means “the beacon” in Gaelic.
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Architectural Trail
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Francis Street, Stornoway, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS1 2NBStornoway, Isle Of Lewis
A Stornoway landmark, built in 1878. Martin’s Memorial Church was designed by RA Bryden.
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Architectural Trail
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Sandwick Road, Stornoway, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS1 2PNIsle Of Lewis
The Italianate Clocktower remains from the original elementary and infant school built in 1873, with the tower designed by Dr Alexander Ross in 1902.
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Architectural Trail
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Gibson Gardens, Stornoway, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS1 2AGIsle Of Lewis
A large (in island terms) social housing project for rent which fits an urban site where a school hostel had been located. Completed in 2012 by local architects Anderson Associates.
