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  2. List of community buyouts in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Property Date Type Owner Purchase price Area OS grid reference Notes hectares acres Glendale Estate, Skye 1908: Estate: Glendale Trust: 9,300 23,000: Purchased by the government, then sold to the crofters [1] Stornoway Estate, Lewis 1923: Estate: Stornoway Trust: £0 28,000 69,200: Gifted by Lord Leverhulme: Macdonald Estate, Skye Apr 1971 ...

  3. Plasterfield - Wikipedia

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    Plasterfield is a suburb of Stornoway and consists of two groups of houses, built after World War II. The ambulance station for the Isle of Lewis is also here [2] as well a small industrial estate (Mossend estate). In the 1970s a group of Barratt houses was built adjacent to Plasterfield; this area was originally called Bayview. Plasterfield is ...

  4. Parkend, Lewis - Wikipedia

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    Parkend (Scottish Gaelic: Ceann nam Buailtean) is a hamlet in the Sandwick region of the Isle of Lewis, although like Melbost, it is not a part of the Eye Peninsula. Many people erroneously believe it to be a suburb of Stornoway, on the island of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. [1] Parkend is within the parish of Stornoway. [2]

  5. Isle of Lewis - Wikipedia

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    The Isle of Lewis [2] (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Leòdhais) or simply Lewis (pronounced [ˈʎɔːəs̪] ⓘ) is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides archipelago in Scotland. The two parts are frequently referred to as if they were separate islands.

  6. Stornoway - Wikipedia

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    Stornoway Town Hall. The town was founded by Vikings in the early 9th century, [8] with the Old Norse name Stjórnavágr.The settlement grew up around a sheltered natural harbour and became a hub for people from all over the island, who travelled to Stornoway either by family boat or by horse-drawn coach, for onward travel to and trade with the rest of Scotland and further afield.

  7. North Tolsta - Wikipedia

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    North Tolsta (Scottish Gaelic: Tolastadh bho Thuath) is a village in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, on the east side of the Isle of Lewis. North Tolsta is within the parish of Stornoway. [1] Tolsta is notable for its long sandy beach Traigh Mhor [2] At the end of Tolsta's long sandy beach there are five caves, only visitable during low tide. They ...

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    The Isle of Lewis had also suffered the Iolaire disaster in 1919 when 200 servicemen from the island had drowned at the mouth of Stornoway harbour, coming home for the first new year of peace.

  9. Lewis and Harris - Wikipedia

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    In the 9th century, Norsemen dominated the Isle; they eventually converted to Christianity. In the early 13th Century, the Nicholson family, or MacNicols, built Castle Lewis at Stornoway harbour. In 1607, Stornoway became a burgh of barony. In 1844, Sir James Matheson purchased the Island and built Lews Castle between 1847 and 1857.

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