Township on the west coast of South Uist with medieval chapel ruins, thatched cottages, a Gatliff hostel and a beach nearby
Howmore (Tobha Mòr) is a township on the west side of South Uist, just west of the A865. It has been the island's ecclesiastical centre for over a thousand years, and the ruins of several medieval chapels stand in the burial ground, including Teampull Mòr, which probably dates from the 1200s and served as the parish church.
The village also has one of Scotland's best-preserved groups of thatched cottages, one of which is run as a crofters' hostel by the Gatliff Hebridean Hostels Trust, and the white-harled Howmore Church of 1858. It is one of four designated conservation areas in the Outer Hebrides.
A track leads from the village to a dune-backed beach less than half a mile away.
Photo Sandy Gerrard, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Hebridean Coaches, Howmore Garage
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