Loch na Beinne Bige

Loch na Beinne Bige is in Western Isles, Scotland. Loch na Beinne Bige is situated nearby to the archaeological site Callanish XI, as well as near Breasclete Community Center.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Callanish Stones and Callanish X.

Callanish Stones

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.

The Calanais Stones are a prehistoric stone circle and stone alignment on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The monument was built during the Neolithic period, around c. 2750 BC. Callanish Stones is situated 1½ miles south of Loch na Beinne Bige.

Callanish X

Archaeological site

Photo: Claire Pegrum, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Callanish X is the collapsed remains of a stone circle. It is one of many megalithic structures around the more well-known and larger Calanais I on the west coast of the isle of Lewis, in the Western Isles of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Callanish X is situated 1¼ miles south of Loch na Beinne Bige.

Ceabhaigh

Island

Ceabhaigh is a small island in an arm of Loch Ròg on the west coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It is about 25 hectares in extent. It is not known if the island was ever permanently inhabited.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Callanish and Garynahine.

Callanish

Village

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Calanais is a village on the west side of the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Calanais is within the parish of Uig. A linear settlement with a jetty, it is on a headland jutting into Loch Roag, a sea loch 13 miles west of Stornoway.

Garynahine

Village

Photo: F Leask, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Garynahine is a settlement on Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Garynahine is situated at a T-junction where roads from Stornoway, Uig and the west side of Lewis all meet. The roads are the A858 and the B8011. Garynahine is within the parish of Uig. Garynahine is situated 2 miles southeast of Loch na Beinne Bige.

Breaclete

Village

Photo: Iain Macaulay, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Breacleit is the central village on Great Bernera in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Breaclete is within the parish of Uig. Although the village name comes from a geographical feature rather than a steading it is generally believed to be an ancient settlement. Breaclete is situated 4 miles west of Loch na Beinne Bige.

Loch na Beinne Bige

Type: Body of water
Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

58.21836° or 58° 13′ 6″ north

Longitude

-6.73065° or 6° 43′ 50″ west

Open location code

9CCM6799+8P

OpenStreetMap ID

way 47452064

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

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