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Stornoway

Stornoway is the main town on and the admin centre for all of Scotland's . Indeed it's the only town in these islands; it has the best amenities and transport links, and it's the obvious base for exploring both Lewis and Harris.
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  • Type: Town with 4,580 residents
  • Description: town and district on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Steòrnabhagh”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lews Castle and An Lanntair.

Castle
Photo: David Maclennan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a Victorian era castle located west of the town of Stornoway, , Scotland. It was built in the years 1844–51 as a country house for Sir James Matheson who had bought the whole island a few years previously with his fortune from the Chinese opium trade.

Arts center
Photo: Stephen Branley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an arts centre in the town of Stornoway in the of Scotland. The centre is home to a , and art gallery. Previously located in the Town Hall, moved to its current new building overlooking the harbour in September 2005.

Courthouse
Photo: LornaMCampbell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Lewis and Sandwick.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
and Harris are a single large island in the or Western Isles of Scotland. It's the third largest island in the British Archipelago, only Great Britain and Ireland being larger.

Village
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is a village in the Scottish , on the and a quasi-suburb of Stornoway. is situated within the parish of Stornoway.

Village
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is a village in the of Scotland, on the near Stornoway. It is part of the Leodsoch countryside and a peat site is not far away.

Stornoway

Latitude
58.2084° or 58° 12′ 30″ north
Longitude
-6.3881° or 6° 23′ 17″ west
Population
4,580
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
IATA airport code
SYY
United Nations Location Code
GB STO
Open location code
9CCM6J56+9Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 28088870
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2636790
Wiki­data ID
Q165845
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Zeeuws—“Stornoway” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Stornoway”
  • Azerbaijani: “Stornavey”
  • Basque: “Steòrnabhagh”
  • Basque: “Stornoway”
  • Belarusian: “Сторнаўэй”
  • Bengali: “স্টোনবাঘ এ তুয়াত”
  • Bengali: “স্টোনাবাঘ এ দেস”
  • Breton: “Steòrnabhagh”
  • Catalan: “Stornoway”
  • Cebuano: “Stornoway (kapital sa dapit sa konseho)”
  • Cebuano: “Stornoway”
  • Chinese: “史多努威”
  • Chinese: “斯多诺威”
  • Chinese: “斯多諾威”
  • Chinese: “斯托诺韦”
  • Czech: “Stornoway”
  • Danish: “Stornoway”
  • Dutch: “Steòrnabhagh”
  • Estonian: “Stornoway”
  • Finnish: “Steòrnabhagh”
  • Finnish: “Stornoway”
  • French: “Stornoway”
  • German: “Stornoway”
  • Greek: “Στόρνογουεϊ”
  • Gujarati: “સ્ટોર્નોવે”
  • Hebrew: “סטורנוויי”
  • Hungarian: “Stornoway”
  • Icelandic: “Stornoway”
  • Irish: “Steórnabhagh”
  • Irish: “Steòrnabhagh”
  • Italian: “Stornoway”
  • Japanese: “ストーノーウェイ”
  • Japanese: “ストーノウェー”
  • Japanese: “ストーノバ・ア・ジェス”
  • Japanese: “ストーノバ・ア・トゥア”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಟೊನ್ವಾಯ್”
  • Korean: “스토너웨이”
  • Latvian: “Stornoveja”
  • Lithuanian: “Stornovėjus”
  • Luxembourgish: “Stornoway”
  • Manx: “Steornavaie”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stornoway”
  • Norwegian: “Stornoway”
  • Ossetian: “Сторновей”
  • Persian: “استورنووی”
  • Polish: “Stornoway”
  • Portuguese: “Stornoway”
  • Romanian: “Stornoway”
  • Russian: “Сторновей”
  • Russian: “Сторноуэй”
  • Scots: “Stornowa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Steòrnabhagh”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stornoway”
  • Slovenian: “Stornoway”
  • South Azerbaijani: “استورنووی”
  • Spanish: “Stornoway”
  • Swedish: “Stornoway”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்டார்நோவெ”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்டோர்னோவாய்”
  • Telugu: “స్టోర్నోవే”
  • Telugu: “స్ట్రోనోవే”
  • Ukrainian: “Сторновей”
  • Urdu: “ستورنووے”
  • Welsh: “Steòrnabhagh”
  • Welsh: “Stornoway”
  • Zeeuws: “Stornoway”
  • “Steòrnabhagh”
  • “Stornoway”
  • “Stornoway - Steòrnabhagh”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Stornoway”. Photo: JamesMorrison, CC BY-SA 3.0.