Tolsta Chaolais

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58°14′28″N 6°46′55″W / 58.241°N 6.782°W / 58.241; -6.782

Tolsta Chaolais (also Tolastadh Chaolais, Tolstadh a' Chaolais) is a village on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. It consists of about forty houses, clustered around Loch a' Bhaile, about 1 mile (1.5 kilometres) from the A858 road between Callanish and Carloway. The name has a Norse element, Tolsta, combined with a Gaelic element, Caolas, and means "Farm by the Strait".[1] Tolsta Chaolais is in the parish of Uig,[2] and has a building as a place of worship for all denominations.[1]

In 1979 the village was photographed by Fay Godwin as part of a landscape photography project funded by the Arts Council of Great Britain. One of Godwin's photographs of Tolsta Chaolais was published in her 1985 book of rural landscapes, Land.[3]

In 2013, the village was the location of much of the filming for the CBeebies children's television programme Katie Morag.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Tolsta Chaolais". Hebridean Connections. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  2. ^ "Lewis, Tolsta Chaolais". Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  3. ^ Land by Fay Godwin, Heinnemann 1985, ISBN 0-434-30305-4
  4. ^ "Katie Morag to film on location on the Isle of Lewis". Highlands and Islands Enterprise. 14 February 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
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  • Canmore - Lewis, Tolsta Chaolais, War Memorial site record
  • Canmore - Lewis, Tolsta Chaolais, Horizontal Mill site record


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