Uig

Uig Scots Gaelic: Ùig
Uig Community Shop
Uig Location within the Outer Hebrides
Leid	Scots Gaelic Inglis
OS grid reference	NB022334
Ceevil pairish	Uig
Cooncil area	Na h-Eileanan Siar
Lieutenancy area	The Waster Isles
Kintra	Scotland
Sovereign state	Unitit Kinrick
Post toun	ISLE OF LEWIS
Postcode destrict	HS2
Diallin code	01851
Police	Scots
Fire	Scots
Ambulance	Scots
EU Pairlament	Scotland
UK Pairlament	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Scots Pairlament	Na h-Eileanan an Iar

Uig Lodge

Chessman on the links o Uig, near to whaur the Lewis Chessmen war discoverit

Uig (Scots Gaelic: Ùig) kent as Sgìr' Ùig ("Uig aurie") forby, is a Scots civil pairish an community in the wasterly airt o the Isle o Lewis in the Waster Isles. The Pairish o Uig is ane o the fower civil pairishes o the Isle o Lewis. It haes athin itsel the destricts o Carlowa, East Uig, Bernera and West Uig (kent as Uig destrict or Uig Lewis). The name derives frae the Norse wird Vik meanin a bay.

Uig destrict

Geographie

Uig is the maistmuckle an maist scrimply peoplit destrict on Lewis. It haes the heichmaist point on the island, Mealasbhal (574 m or 1,883 ft) an anither sax o the heichmaist ten peaks an aw. The deepest loch, Loch Suaineabhat at 67 metre (220 feet), is the deepest ooterly loch in the British Isles. The coast haes significant inlats; e.g. Little Loch Roag, Loch Thamnabhagh, Loch Reasort an Uig Bay.

Uig Bay haes a vast strand o shell foreland thit gies a fertile "machair" fringe. Ither shell sand forelands an machair are foond at Tràigh na Beirgh, Bhaltos, Cliff, Capadale, Mangurstadh an Mealastadh.

The Atlantic wast coast fae Gallan Heid tae Loch Reasort is dominatit bi cliffs an monie wee chasms kent as "geodhs". Inland, the land haes a glaciated profile wi thin acidic soil an muckle rock outcrops o Lewisian gneiss. Wirdy o geological tent is the discovery o the mucklest sapphire o the British Isles; the 242-carat (48.4-gram) stane wis discovered in 1995 an is on display at the Naitional Museum o Scotland.

Links outwith

• Brahan Seer Legend on BBC wabsteid (in Inglis)
• Archaeology in Uig (in Inglis)
• Comann Eachdraigh Uig (Uig Historical Society) (in Inglis)