Uig

Uig
Scots Gaelic: *Ùig*
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;
	Leet o places UK Scotland 58°10′44″N 7°01′34″W / 58.179°N 7.026°WCoordinates: 58°10′44″N 7°01′34″W / 58.179°N 7.026°W

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

Uig destrict

Geographie

Uig is the biggest 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 Brítish 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 and machair are foond at Tràigh na Beirgh, Bhaltos, Cliff, Capadale, Mangurstadh an Mealastadh.

The Atlantic wast coast fae Gallan Heid tae Loch Reasort is dominated bi cliffs an monie wee chasms kent as "geodhs". Inland, the land haes a glaciated profile wi thin acidic soil an lairge rock outcrops o Lewisian gneiss. Wirdy o geological tent is the discovery o the lairgest sapphire o the Brítish 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)

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