Parkend and Holm
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.Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Ceann nam Buailtean agus Tolm”, “Parkend”, and “Parkend, 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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Holm and Sandwick.
Holm
Village
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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".
Sandwick
Village
Photo: Donald Lawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
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.
Parkend and Holm
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.20208° or 58° 12′ 8″ northLongitude
-6.34044° or 6° 20′ 26″ westOpen location code
9CCM6M25+RROpenStreetMap ID
node 5586469678OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletWikidata ID
Q7138244
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Dutch—“Parkend and Holm” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Parkend (Lewis)”
- Basque: “Parkend”
- Dutch: “Parkend, Lewis”
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