Benbecula Parish Church

Benbecula Parish Church is a church in Western Isles, Scotland. Benbecula Parish Church is situated near the peak Cnoc Breac, as well as near the lake Loch nan Clach Corr.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Borve Castle and Rueval.

Borve Castle

Castle

Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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. Borve Castle is situated 2 miles southwest of Benbecula Parish Church.

Rueval

Peak

Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Rueval is a peak, which is situated 2 miles northeast of Benbecula Parish Church.

St Mary’s Chapel

Church

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St Mary’s Chapel is a church, which is situated 2½ miles northwest of Benbecula Parish Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Benbecula and Creagorry.

Benbecula

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.

Creagorry

Village

Photo: Barbara Carr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Creagorry is a village, which is situated 2½ miles south of Benbecula Parish Church.

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. Uachdar is situated 2½ miles north of Benbecula Parish Church.

Benbecula Parish Church

Type: Church
Denomination: Church of Scotland
Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.44433° or 57° 26′ 40″ north

Longitude

-7.33531° or 7° 20′ 7″ west

Roof shape

gabled

Open location code

9C9JCMV7+PV

OpenStreetMap ID

way 359221856

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=place_of_worship

OpenStreetMap feature

building=church

OpenStreetMap attribute

denomination=church_of_scotland

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Cnoc Breac and Loch nan Clach Corr.

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