Holm
Holm Village is a village in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, on the Isle of Lewis near Stornoway. The modern area of Holm can be split into two distinct areas - "Holm Village" and "Holm Road with Parkend".| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Holm, Lewis”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stornoway Airport and HMY Iolaire.
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.
HMY Iolaire
Memorial
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
HMY Iolaire was an iron-hulled steam yacht that was launched in Scotland in 1881 as Iolanthe. She was renamed Mione in 1898; Iolanthe in 1900; and Amalthæa in 1907.
Arnish Point Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: phil smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Arnish Point Lighthouse is situated 1½ miles west of Holm.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Parkend and Holm and Branahuie.
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.
Branahuie
Village
Photo: Angus Peck, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Branahuie is a village on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Branahuie is within the parish of Stornoway, and is situated on the A866. It is also close to Stornoway, Stornoway Airport and Melbost.
Melbost
Village
Photo: Angus Peck, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Melbost is a traditionally Gaelic-speaking village in Point on the east coast of the Isle of Lewis, in Scotland's north-west. It is largely a crofting township and is about 2+1⁄2 miles east of Stornoway at the head of an isthmus connecting with the Eye Peninsula.
Holm
- Category: locality
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.19847° or 58° 11′ 55″ northLongitude
-6.32872° or 6° 19′ 43″ westOpen location code
9CCM5MXC+9GOpenStreetMap ID
node 450203114OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q5883142
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Irish—“Holm” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Holm (Lewis)”
- Basque: “Holm”
- Dutch: “Holm, Lewis”
- French: “Holm”
- Irish: “Tolm”
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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 “Holm”. Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.