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Arts & Crafts
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Coll, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0JPTelephone
01851 820475Isle of Lewis
Awards
- Other Awards Outer Hebrides Tourism Member 2020
A working craft centre featuring a blacksmith, glass, ceramics and jewellery. Here you can browse our galleries, watch us work from our viewing area and have refreshments in our tearoom. Classes and workshops available in glass and ceramics. We have ample car parking space for cars and coaches and disabled access.
- Other Awards Outer Hebrides Tourism Member 2020
less than 2 miles
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Beach
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Gress, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0LQIsle Of Lewis
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A stunning beach on the north east side of Lewis for a relaxing walk full of wildlife.
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Scenic Locations
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Coll, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0LPIsle Of Lewis
Beautiful beach approximately five miles from Stornoway. Suitable for walking, wind-surfing, kite flying. There is also a caravan park with toilets
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Historic Sites
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Gress, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0LQIsle Of Lewis
Memorial erected to signify the land raid in Gress
less than 5 miles
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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.
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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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Literary Trail
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Church Street, Stonoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS1 2JDStonoway, Isle of Lewis
Photograph © David WilsonThe police station is off course where Detective Fin Macleod is based on his return to the island, having left as a teenager. He is brought in to investigate the murder of Angus "Angel" Macritchie following a copycat murder he had been investigating in Edinburgh. Here he teams up with Detective Sergeant George Gunn…
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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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Beach
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Braighe, Point, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0BQIsle Of Lewis
Lovely flat beach in Point just 3 miles from Stornoway.
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Arts & Crafts
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Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Sandwick Road, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS1 2BWStornoway, Isle of Lewis
A downloadable handy pocket sized guide to galleries and retail outlets where visual art and craft, made in the Outer Hebrides, can be viewed, enjoyed & purchased.
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Wildlife, Safari Parks & Zoos
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Castle Grounds, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0XPIsle of Lewis
Great walks, cylce paths, mountain bike trail and scenery overlooking Stornoway Harbour.
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Historic Sites
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Gress, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0LQIsle Of Lewis
Corn mill, Gress, 19th and early 20th century. The roofless ruin of a complex and two-storey building, part rubble, part cast concrete, with rhe axle and one ring of a six-spoke iron overshot wheel about 14ft (4.3m) diameter and the cast-iron pit wheel. There is a 48in (1.22m) diameter millstone at the entrance.
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Monuments & Ruins
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Point, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0PDIsle 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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Monuments & Ruins
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Memorial Avenue, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS1 2QRIsle of Lewis
The Isle of Lewis War Memorial, overlooking the town of Stornoway, is dedicated to the lewis men who lost their lives in World War 1 and the sinking of HMY Iolaire in 1919.
more than 5 miles
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Bird of Prey Trail
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Kershader, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9QAIsle Of Lewis
This visitor centre, hostel and cafe have good views over the shore of loch Erisort, a sea loch regularly visited by white-tailed eagles. This is also an excellent place from which to explore the remote Pairc peninsula.
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Nature Centres & Reserves
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Ardvourlie, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, HS3 3ABTelephone
01859 502222Isle of Harris
Awards
- Other Awards Outer Hebrides Tourism Member 2020
The breath-taking views over Loch Seaforth and the chance to see native trees in an otherwise rugged and tree-less landscape make this well worth a visit. The Observatory sits near the top of the circular track through the 100ha community woodland in the often-overlooked northern part of the estate.
- Other Awards Outer Hebrides Tourism Member 2020
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Hebridean Way Pit Stop
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Community Hub, Balallan, Kinloch, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9PNTelephone
01851 830778Kinloch, Isle of Lewis
Awards
- Other Awards Outer Hebrides Tourism Member 2020
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 area’s links to Clan Mackenzie.
- Other Awards Outer Hebrides Tourism Member 2020
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Literary Trail
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Cromwell Street, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS1 2DAStornoway, Isle of Lewis
Stornoway features in all three books. In particular, there are scene's in MacNeils, the Police Station, the Lews Castle and the Iolaire Monument.
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Arts & Crafts
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An Cnoc, 46A South Shawbost, ISLE OF LEWIS, Isle of Lewis, HS2 9BJTelephone
01851 710402ISLE OF LEWIS
Awards
- Other Awards Outer Hebrides Tourism Member 2020
From the cusp of the Atlantic shores of the Isle of Lewis, hand poured soy wax candles, wax melts & reed diffusers with Hebridean inspired fragrances.
- Other Awards Outer Hebrides Tourism Member 2020
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Architectural Trail
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Eoropie, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0XHIsle of Lewis
Built in 1862 by David and Thomas Stevenson. Made from red brick, which was unusual for Scottish lighthouses, it is 37 metres high and has 168 steps to the top. Spray flies over the top of it in winter storms.
