Sandwick
Sandwick is a village in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, on the Isle of Lewis and a quasi-suburb of Stornoway. Sandwick is situated within the parish of Stornoway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Donald Lawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 810 residents
- Description: village on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Sandwick, Lewis”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stornoway Airport and Stornoway power station.
Stornoway Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Stephen Branley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stornoway Airport is an airfield located 2 NM east of the town of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, in Scotland.
Stornoway power station
Power station
Photo: Stephen Branley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stornoway power station, also known as Battery Point Power Station, is an electrical generation facility in Stornoway, Scotland. It was commissioned in 1954 to supply power to the Western Isles.
Stornoway Sheriff Court
Courthouse
Photo: LornaMCampbell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stornoway Sheriff Court is a judicial building on Lewis Street in Stornoway in Scotland. The building, which continues to be used as a courthouse, is a Category B listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Parkend and Holm and Plasterfield.
Parkend and Holm
Hamlet
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Parkend 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.
Plasterfield
Village
Photo: Donald Lawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plasterfield is a hamlet in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, on the Isle of Lewis. Plasterfield is within the parish of Stornoway. Plasterfield is a suburb of Stornoway and consists of two groups of houses, built after World War II.
Steinish
Village
Photo: Donald Lawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Steinish is a village in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, on the Isle of Lewis, near Plasterfield and Stornoway Airport. Steinish is situated within the parish of Stornoway, and is also situated adjacent to the Laxdale estuary.
Sandwick
- Category: locality
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.20551° or 58° 12′ 20″ northLongitude
-6.35332° or 6° 21′ 12″ westPopulation
810Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)Open location code
9CCM6J4W+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 448025695OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2638535Wikidata ID
Q7417107
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Sandwick” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Sandwick (Lewis)”
- Basque: “Sandwick”
- Dutch: “Sandwick, Lewis”
- Irish: “Sanndabhaig”
- Spanish: “Sandwick”
- Swedish: “Sanndabhaig”
- Welsh: “Sandwick, Lewis”
- Welsh: “Sanndabhaig”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Stornoway Free Church (Continuing) and Sandwick Cemetery.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sandwick”. Photo: Donald Lawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.