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Located in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Stornoway Apartment features self-catering, modern accommodation with garden. It is just 1 miles from Raon Goilf 18-hole Golf Course.
The one-bedroom apartment features a bright living room with flat-screen TV and fireplace, a fully equipped kitchen and a bathroom with free toiletries. It is set in a historic listed building.
Free Wi-Fi and free private parking are available on site. Guests will find a range of pubs, restaurants and clubs just a 5-minute walk from the property.
Local activities include surfing, sailing, fishing and bird watching as well as dolphin and whale watching. Guests can also go and explore the Isle of Harris, from Stornoway Harbour. Lews Castle is just 0.8 miles away.
Places to see in ( Stornoway - UK )
Places to see in ( Stornoway - UK )
Stornoway is a town on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Stornoway is an important port and the major town and administrative centre of the Outer Hebrides. Stornoway is home to Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (the Western Isles Council) and a variety of educational, sporting and media establishments. Observance of the Christian Sabbath (Sunday) has long been an aspect of the island's culture. Recent changes mean that Sunday on Lewis now more closely resembles Sunday on the other Western Isles or the mainland of Scotland.
Stornoway is also the public transport hub of Lewis, and buses run to Point, Ness, Back and Tolsta, Uig, the West Side, Lochs and Tarbert, Harris. These buses are provided by the Comhairle and several private operators as well as some community-run organisations.
Suggestions for the possibility of an undersea tunnel linking Lewis and Harris to the Scottish mainland were raised in early 2007. One of the possible routes, between Stornoway and Ullapool, would be over 40 miles (60 km) long and hence become the longest road tunnel in the world.
Stornoway Airport is located next to the village of Melbost, 2 miles (3 km) away from the town itself. From here services operate to Aberdeen, Benbecula, Edinburgh, Inverness and Glasgow, with flights from Flybe franchisee Loganair & Eastern Airways. The airport is also the base of an HM Coastguard Search & Rescue Sikorsky S-92 helicopter, and was previously home to RAF Stornoway. In 1898, the Hebridean Light Railway Company was proposed, with a terminus at Stornoway, but the line was never constructed.
Notable buildings in Stornoway include:
Stornoway Town Hall
The Lewis War Memorial
The neo-gothic Lews Castle
( Stornoway - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Stornoway . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Stornoway - UK
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Time Lapse Of The Iolaire Installation In Stornoway Harbour - East
Old Photographs Stornoway Isle Of Lewis Outer Hebrides Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides. This Scottish town was founded by Vikings in the early 9th century, under the name Stjórnavágr. This town, and what eventually became its present day version, grew up around a sheltered natural harbour well placed at a central point on the island, for the convenience of people from all over the island, to arrive at the port of Stornoway, either by family boat or horse drawn coach for ongoing travel and trade with the mainland of Scotland and to all points south. In the mid 19th century, the ownership of Stornoway, and by extension the Isle of Lewis, passed from the MacKenzies of Seaforth to Sir James Matheson. In 1918, Matheson sold the island to William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme. Notable people born in Stornoway include; Colonel Colin Mackenzie, born 1754, died 8 May 1821, who was a Scottish army officer in the British East India Company who later became the first Surveyor General of India. He was a collector of antiquities and an orientalist. He surveyed southern India, making use of local interpreters and scholars to study religion, oral histories, inscriptions and other evidence initially out of personal interest and later as a surveyor. He was ordered to survey the Mysore region shortly after the British victory over Tipu Sultan in 1799 and produced the first maps of the region along with illustrations of the landscape and notes on archaeological landmarks. His collections consisting of thousands of manuscripts, inscriptions, translations, coins and paintings were acquired after his death by the India Office Library and are an important source for the study of Indian history. Sir Alexander Mackenzie, or MacKenzie, born 1764, died 12 March 1820, who was a Scottish explorer. He is known for his overland crossing of what is now Canada to reach the Pacific Ocean in 1793. This was the first east to west crossing of North America north of Mexico and preceded the Lewis and Clark expedition by 10 years.
Stornoway Black Pudding
Ria Barley runs us through the heritage of her family business Charles MacLeod Black Pudding first founded by her Grandfather in 1947.
Stornoway and Harris
A visit to the Isle of Lewis in August 2009.
Stornoway and Harris.
Callanish Standing Stones.
Blackhouse Village at Carloway.
Scalpay.
Butt of Lewis.
Rodel.
Stornoway playing Cold Harbour Road
This is in my opinion their best song... Completely amazing. The album version is quite slower, so I prefer this version.
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Stornoway harbour, with snow
A timelapse I found lying around on my hard drive that I did a while ago. The 29th of December 2009, to be precise. Some rather changeable weather on that day! Sadly the window wasn't that clean so it's a little fuzzy, and the silver ring on the front of the camera is quite noticeable - I've not yet found an adequate way to eliminate it.
Tech details: I used a Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 webcam being controlled by a Linksys NSLU2 running OpenWrt and mjpg_streamer.
Some folk have asked what the Clansman is doing there, and why the Isle of Lewis is in backwards - it had some technical problems either with the ramps or the engines, I forget which, and so it's parked backwards around the wrong side of No.3 pier. The Clansman is covering its route.
Arriving Stornoway 21st July 2019
Embraer 145, Glasgow - Stornoway flight, landing runway 18
ATR 45 Landing in Stornoway Airport, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
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EGPO
Stornoway and Lews Castle, Isle of Lewis - Feb 2016
Great Britain, Lewis and Harris, Stornoway EGPO - Landing
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There are many opportunities open to stundents locating to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland to study. With two internationally validated online courses in BSc(Hons) Sustainable Development and an MSc Sustainable Rural Development, these courses will suit students seeking an activity-based University experience in the unspoilt outdoors of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
Interview 8. Stornoway. 11 June, 2016. EU referendum. Paul.
Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
Stornoway is the main town on the Isle of Lewis and is also the home of the Western Isles Council. Just over 6,000 people live in the town, which represents about a third of the Islands total population. The economy is a mix of traditional businesses like fishing, Harris Tweed and farming, with more recent influences like Tourism, the oil industry and commerce brought about by the digital revolution and communications.
Stornoway is the main port on the Island, due to its sheltered location with the ferry to Ullapool a regular visitor. The sheltered harbour is the reason for Stornoway's existence and was named by the visiting Vikings Steering Bay which, when phonetically translated, became the name Stornoway.
Stornoway 18 - Steve's Restored Wooden Boat
'Footloose' Stornoway 18 (Scruffie Marine) beautifully restored by Steve Tanner.
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Airlie Beach & Dingo Beach Queensland 2017
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Minch to Stornoway small
A great sail in the Minch. from Loch Shell to Stornoway
Ullapool to Stornoway. .
A day excursion [May 2008] to the largest and most northerly of the Outer Hebridean Islands, Lewis; from Ullapool to Stornoway by Calmac on a calm still hot day.
Soundtrack: WISHBONE ASH - 'Persephone'; this version from the Past and Present Live.
There's a light that shines on Persephone,
Always a fire in her eyes,
And the last time that I went to her
I could tell things weren't right.
I just don't care to see your years go wasting,
There's no longer magic in your eyes.
In your time, you could outshine everybody else around,
But your off-stage ways might be a bore -
You take a bow, you take a fall.
I came to be here in the footlights,
To live with you through every song,
And your face displays a peaceful field.
I can't believe the curtain has to fall.
Now I know your years were never wasted,
Tonight I saw the magic in your eyes.
It was in 888 that King Harald of Norway added the Hebrides to his Crown - hence the existing Norse place-names of Lewis, Harris, Uist etc all of which derive from those sea-roving Vikings. This video captures the sailing to Lewis from Ullapool.
On the east shore of Loch Broom, Ullapool was founded in 1788 as a herring port by the British Fisheries Society - and was designed by Thomas Telford. The harbour is still perhaps the focal point of the town and is used as a fishing port, yachting haven, and ferry port. Ferries, as in this video, sail to Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides.
Many of the pivotal discoveries of the Victorian era that contributed to the development of the concept of plate tectonics were made in this area, and there are still regular international geological conferences! Others, of course, visit here for the scenery, hillwalking and the Seaforth, FBI and the Arch!!! Not to mention those amazing breakfasts in the local cafe!
Ullapool is surrounded us on all four sides by mountains and contains some of the most beautiful unspoiled scenery in the world with undiscovered beaches, forests, hidden glens with stags grazing, waterfalls, bird sanctuaries to explore, breathtaking twisty single track roads, all warmed by the gulf stream that gives it the tropical garden look with the comparably mild weather. It really has its own micro-climate. Boat trips depart to the enchanting Summer Isles as does a power boat trip that is highly recommended [watch the other video - Seascape adventure]; see seals and porpoises or marvel at the botanists miracle of Hydroponics in Achiltibuie.
From his 1920 writings 'The Land of the Hills and the Glens' author Seton Gordon in a chapter regarding 'Winter Birds on the Shore of the Minch' , writes thus: -
Across the waters of the Minch there stand the hills of Lewis, and there can be seen the entrance to Stornoway Harbour, a good forty miles distant, with the rounded hills that guard the port. Away beyond the entrance to the two lochs - Loch Broom and Little Loch Broom - there stands, perhaps twenty miles to the northward, the wild headland of Rudha Stoer, with its lighthouse, built high above the waters of the Minch. Even at this great distance one can see through the glass of a clear winter's day the spray rising high on the rocks as the swell from the north-west breaks, with the full force of the Atlantic, on this exposed headland.
Lewis is, in general, the lower lying part of Lewis and Harris, with the other part, Harris, being more mountainous. The flatter, more fertile land means Lewis contains the only town, Stornoway, and three-quarters of the population of the Western Isles. Our sailing on this occasion was a (pedestrian) non-landing one, so it would be nice to return again, this time for the ascent of the 799m 'Rocky Hill' Corbett, An Clisham (Clisham). The oldest rock in the Highlands is the Lewisian gneiss from which the hills of Harris have been carved.
From his 1921 'Wanderings of a Naturalist' Seton Gordon describes it thus:- On the Island of Harris are many hills, and the highest of them all is Clisham, which reaches an altitude of 2,622ft. And from the summit concludes on a clear day St.Kilda can be seen, the distance being roughly sixty miles.
From his 1923 writings 'Hebridean Memories':
Fom the lone shieling of the misty island
Mounains divide us, and the waste of seas -
But still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland
And we in dreams behold the Hebrides