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Col. Oliver Hazard Payne Estate is a historic 60-acre (24 ha) estate, also known as Omega and Wiltwick, [2] located on the west bank of the Hudson River at Esopus in Ulster County, New York, United States. The estate features a 42,000-square-foot (3,900 m 2) Beaux Arts-style Mediterranean palazzo with an open courtyard.
The harbour, Stornoway The ruins of Dun Carloway Iron Age broch Two kings and two queens from the Lewis chessmen Our Lady of the Isles, South Uist Amhuinnsuidhe Castle, Harris The inhabited islands of the Outer Hebrides had a total population of 26,502 in 2001 [ 7 ] and 27,684 at the time of the 2011 census .
The Hebridean Light Railway Company proposed to operate on the Scottish islands of Skye and Lewis. [1] The Skye line was to have connected the port of Isleornsay (for ferries from Mallaig on the Scottish mainland) and the port of Uig on the north-west coast of the island, from where ferries would have sailed to Stornoway on Lewis.
Hebridean Brewing Company (Companaidh Grùdaidh nan Innse Gall) was an independent microbrewery founded in 2001 [1] (although production did not begin until late January 2002 [2]) by Andy Ribbens in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
One of the possible routes, between Stornoway and Ullapool, would be over 50 miles (80 km) long and hence the longest road tunnel in the world; [36] [37] however, shorter routes would be possible. Stornoway is the public transport hub of Lewis, with bus services to Point, Ness, Back and Tolsta, Uig, the West Side, Lochs and Tarbert, Harris ...
Lews Castle (Scottish Gaelic: Caisteal Leòdhais) is a Victorian era castle located west of the town of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland.It was built in the years 1844–51 as a country house for Sir James Matheson who had bought the whole island a few years previously with his fortune from the Chinese opium trade.
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.
Knox's Headquarters State Historic Site, in the town of New Windsor in Orange County, New York, consists of the Georgian house of the Ellison family, built in 1754 by immigrant William Bull [3] [4] of Hamptonburgh, NY, and the grounds around it. The site is located on Old Forge Hill Road, just south of Route 94 east of Vails Gate.