Benbecula
Benbecula is an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, with a population of 1300 in 2021. The name is a medieval mispronunciation: "pen" meaning flat land turned into "ben" for mountain, which it doesn't have.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 1,220 residents
- Description: island of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Beinn na Faoghla” and “Isle of Benbecula”
- Postal code: HS7
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Borve Castle.
Borve Castle
Castle
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Borve Castle, also known as Castle Wearie, and Caisteal Bhuirgh in Scottish Gaelic, is a ruined 14th-century tower house, located at the south-west of the island of Benbecula, in the Western Isles of Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balivanich and Nunton.
Balivanich
Village
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Benbecula is an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, with a population of 1300 in 2021. The name is a medieval mispronunciation: "pen" meaning flat land turned into "ben" for mountain, which it doesn't have.
Nunton
Village
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Benbecula is an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, with a population of 1300 in 2021. The name is a medieval mispronunciation: "pen" meaning flat land turned into "ben" for mountain, which it doesn't have.
Uachdar
Village
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Uachdar is a settlement on the Outer Hebridean Island of Benbecula. Uachdar is within the parish of South Uist. The settlement is home to the only bakery on Benbecula, MacLeans Hebridean Bakery, which also has a small shop in the same complex as the bakery itself.
Benbecula
- Category: island
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Benbecula” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بنبكيولا”
- Asturian: “Benbecula”
- Basque: “Benbecula”
- Breton: “Beinn na Faoghla”
- Breton: “Benbecula”
- Catalan: “Benbecula”
- Cebuano: “Benbecula Island”
- Cebuano: “Benbecula”
- Chinese: “本貝丘拉島”
- Chinese: “本贝丘拉岛”
- Czech: “Benbecula”
- Dutch: “Beinn na Faoghla”
- Dutch: “Beinn nam Faoghla”
- Dutch: “Benbecula”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بنبكيولا”
- French: “Beinn na Faoghla”
- French: “Benbecula”
- German: “Benbecula”
- Greek: “Μπενμπέκουλα”
- Hungarian: “Benbecula”
- Icelandic: “Benbecula”
- Irish: “Beinn na Faoghla”
- Irish: “Beinn nam Fadhla”
- Italian: “Benbecula”
- Japanese: “ベンベキュラ島”
- Lithuanian: “Benbekjula”
- Manx: “Beinn na Faoghla”
- Manx: “Beinn nam Fadhla”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Benbecula”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Benbecula”
- Norwegian: “Benbecula”
- Polish: “Benbecula”
- Portuguese: “Benbecula”
- Russian: “Бенбекьюла”
- Scots: “Benbecula”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Beinn a’ Bhaoghla”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Beinn na Bhaoghla”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Beinn na bhFadhla”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Beinn na Fadhla”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Beinn na Faghla”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Beinn na Faoghla”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Beinn nam Fadhla”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Beinn nam Faola”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Benbecula”
- Spanish: “Benbecula”
- Swedish: “Benbecula”
- Vietnamese: “Benbecula”
- Welsh: “Beinn na Faoghla”
- Welsh: “Benbecula”
- “Beinn na Faoghla”
- “Benbecula”
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