44 places from our The Outer Hebrides guide, from Barra & Vatersay to The Uists & Benbecula. Each links to its area guide and, where we have one, its official site.
Sites et attractions
44 places
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Demeure historiqueCategory A listed 19th-century house by the B887 in North Harris, now run as exclusive accommodation and a sporting estate.
Autre siteArts centre on the Stornoway waterfront with an art gallery, a cinema, an auditorium and a café bar.
Autre siteMemorial on Vatersay to the emigrant ship Annie Jane, wrecked off the island in 1853 with the loss of about 350 lives.
Demeure historiqueFully furnished thatched blackhouse where a family and its animals once lived under one roof, run by Historic Environment Scotland.
Parc ou natureSandy bay on the west coast of Barra at Tangasdale, on the island ring road.
Parc ou natureRSPB reserve on the west coast of North Uist with sandy beaches, a rocky shore, marshes and dunes.
Autre siteNeolithic chambered cairn about 5,000 years old, around 22 metres across and 5.5 metres high, on North Uist.
Parc ou natureAirport on the tidal bay of Tràigh Mhòr, opened in 1936, where scheduled flights land on the beach.
Autre siteRuined 14th-century tower house, also called Castle Wearie, in the south-west of Benbecula; a scheduled monument.
Autre siteUnpainted red-brick lighthouse by David Stevenson, built in the 1860s at the northern tip of Lewis and automated in 1998.
Autre siteNeolithic stone circle with stone rows, built around 2750 BC and cared for by Historic Environment Scotland, with a visitor centre nearby.
Autre siteSingle standing stone about 5.8 metres high in Ballantrushal, said to be the tallest in Scotland; it is the last stone of a circle.
Autre siteIron Age broch in a loch about 9.5 km north of Lochmaddy; a building was raised on the site in the late medieval period.
Autre siteWell-preserved broch on a rocky knoll above Loch Carloway; on its east side the wall still stands about 9 metres high.
Autre siteInter-tidal sea stack near Knockaird with ruined buildings and a turf wall, the traditional stronghold of the Morrisons of Ness.
Autre siteIron Age broch on the west coast of South Uist, near Bornish.
Autre siteLighthouse on the east coast of Scalpay, the first in the Hebrides and one of the four original Northern Lights.
Autre siteNine restored thatched cottages by the shore at Garenin, lived in until 1974; now holiday cottages, a café and a hostel.
Parc ou natureHighest hill on Barra at 383 metres, about 1.5 km north-east of Castlebay, with views south over the Barra Isles.
Parc ou natureWhite-sand beach at the end of a 19 km single-track road, looking out to the uninhabited island of Scarp.
Autre siteMemorial to the Iolaire, wrecked at the mouth of Stornoway harbour on New Year's Day 1919 with more than 200 lives lost.
Autre siteDistillery in Tarbert making Harris gin and whisky, the first legal distillery built on Harris; CalMac mentions tours and tastings.
MuséeMuseum of South Uist life with more than 10,000 items, plus a café and a craft shop, in a former school.
ChâteauMedieval castle on a rock in Castlebay, seat of the chief of Clan Macneil, reached by a short boat trip from the village.
Autre siteMemorial completed in 1924 on the highest point of Stornoway, remembering Lewis men lost in the First World War and the Iolaire.
ChâteauVictorian country house built in the 1840s for Sir James Matheson; the modern extension houses Museum & Tasglann nan Eilean, opened in 2016.
Parc ou natureLong sandy beach on the west coast of Harris, reached from the A859 by a minor road.
Autre siteShell of an early 18th-century house built for the Clanranald chief and said to have burned down in 1715.
Autre siteLarge sculpture of the Madonna and Child on the hillside above the A865 in South Uist.
Autre sitePrehistoric stone circle on North Uist near Langass; the Gaelic name can be translated as Fionn's people.
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Autre siteGeorgian folly near the village of Scolpaig in the north-west of North Uist.
Parc ou natureSandy beach beside the A859 at Seilebost, across the estuary from Luskentyre.
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Autre siteStone setting on a low hill once thought to be a cairn and stone circle, which may in fact be an early farmstead.
MuséeMuseum and arts centre in Lochmaddy for heritage, visual arts and Gaelic culture, with a café and exhibitions.
Autre siteWest Harris Trust centre on the coast road with a café, a gift shop and events.
Cathédrale ou égliseSt Moluag's Church in Eoropie, reached on foot along a short path from the road and one of the busiest visitor sites in Ness.
Autre siteRuins of a 13th-century Augustinian nunnery at Carinish, believed to be a daughter house of the Iona nunnery.
Parc ou natureAt 799 metres the highest mountain in the Outer Hebrides and its only Corbett; expect boggy ground and rain.
Parc ou natureWide shallow bay of cockle sand at the north end of Barra that doubles as the airport runway.
Parc ou natureWide sands of Tràigh Ùige in the far west of Lewis; the 12th-century Lewis chessmen were found at Uig in 1831.
Parc ou natureBàgh Siar and Bàgh a Deas, sandy bays on the west and south of Vatersay, the southernmost inhabited island in the chain.
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