The House of Stuart's attempts to control the Outer Hebrides were then at first desultory and little more than punitive expeditions.

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The Lewis Sports Centre has a 25m pool with a movable floor, plus a children’s pool, featuring, Nessie the Friendly Monster, and a climbing wall, sports halls, running track and a soft play area. Of the total population, 6,953 people reside in the "Stornoway settlement Laxdale (Lacasdal), Sandwick (Sanndabhaig) and Newmarket" with the balance distributed over 280 townships.The granite here is anorthosite, and is similar in composition to rocks found in the mountains of the Moon. When Somerled wrested the southern Inner Hebrides from Godred the Black in 1156, this was the beginnings of a break with nominal Norse rule in the Hebrides.

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The 15 inhabited islands have a total population of 26,640 [3] and there are more than 50 substantial uninhabited islands. Contemporary dishes include a fusion of traditional Scottish recipes, French classic cuisine and world specialties – prepared with the best fresh local produce available. Murray also notes that "Gneiss Islands"—a reference to the underlying geology – is another name used to refer to the Outer Hebrides but that its use is "confined to books". The Outer Hebrides have a diverse, fascinating history and heritage and something to interest everybody.From the passing of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 to 1975 Lewis formed part of the county of Ross and Cromarty and the rest of the archipelago, including Harris, was part of Inverness-shire. Lewisian gneiss is sometimes described as the oldest rock found in Europe, but trondhjemite gneiss recently measured at Siurua in Finland has been dated to 3. It is not clear from the text which of MacKenzie's five books quoted in the bibliography spanning the years 1903–52 the quote is taken from. Most of Harris is mountainous, with large areas of exposed rock and Clisham, the archipelago's only Corbett, reaches 799m (2,621ft) in height. Homes and housing in the Outer Hebrides are a wide selection of flats, houses and remote country cottages – many of the latter are used for crofting.

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of Gaelic speakers or a total of 15,723 speakers, this made the Outer Hebrides the most strongly coherent Gaelic speaking area in Scotland.On 4 May 1746, the "Young Pretender" Charles Edward Stuart hid on Eilean Liubhaird with some of his men for four days whilst Royal Navy vessels patrolled the Minch. The Roman presence in Scotland was little more than a series of brief interludes within a longer continuum of indigenous development. Although when you are here, there is feeling of being a million miles from the pressures of your everyday existence. The Western Isles became part of the Norse kingdom of the Suðreyjar, which lasted for over 400 years, until sovereignty over the Outer Hebrides was transferred to Scotland by the Treaty of Perth in 1266. The Isle of Lewis web site states that Stornoway's sheltered harbour has been important for centuries; it was named Steering Bay by Vikings who often visited.