Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about South Uist. You may be able to find further references to South Uist in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Uist, South	an island and a parish	Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with South Uist.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ardkenneth	a place	Groome
Ardkenneth	place with R.C. chapel	Bartholomew
Benbecula	an island	Groome
Boisdale	a hamlet and a sea-loch	Groome
Boisdale	hamlet and sea-loch	Bartholomew
Bornish	an estate	Groome
Bornish	estate	Bartholomew
Calvay	island	Bartholomew
Castle Stalker	ruined fortalice	Bartholomew
Daliburgh	place with school	Bartholomew
Eriska	an island	Groome
Fladda	an island	Groome
Fladda	island	Bartholomew
Grimisay	a small island	Groome
Grimisay	island	Bartholomew
Howmore	a village and a registration district	Groome
Nunton	village	Bartholomew
Stoneybridge	school	Bartholomew
Wiay	an island	Groome
Wlay	island	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to South Uist within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
James Boswell	September 21st to 24th, 1773: Dunvegan to Talisker	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Howmore	0	2
Lochboisdale	0	2
Benbecula	0	2
Nunton	0	2
Ronay	0	2
Eriska	0	2
Carinish	0	2
North Uist	0	2
Lochmaddy	0	2
Barra	10	2
Vatersay	0	3
Sanderay	0	2
Dunvegan	0	2
Duirinish	1	3
Berneray	0	2
Bay	0	2
Talisker	0	2
Pabbay	0	2
Canna	0	2
Bracadale	0	2