Eilean Glas
Eilean Glas, on the Isle of Scalpay, was first lit in 1789 and is the oldest lighthouse in the Outer Hebrides. The one you can see below was built in 1824 and automated in 1978.











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Eilean Glas, on the Isle of Scalpay, was first lit in 1789 and is the oldest lighthouse in the Outer Hebrides. The one you can see below was built in 1824 and automated in 1978.
© Mark Simms Photography (2023)
The standing stones at Callanish on the Isle of Lewis are perhaps the most dramatic of all the monuments in the Outer Hebrides.
The main set of standing stones depicted below date from around 2900 BC, but these are just one of a group of Neolithic sites in the landscape around Loch Roag:
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Below are a few images depicting the walk from Borrisdale to Rodel and the small Medieval church of St Clements on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides:
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Because it’s taken me nearly 10 months to post all my photographs from our trip to the Yorkshire Dales back in November 2021, I’ve brought them all together again in one gallery below. Yorkshire is blessed with some magnificent ruined abbey’s, so if you like that sort of thing then this post is definitely for you:
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We visited Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Gardens last November and although the weather wasn’t great it was still showing off some spectacular Autumn colours.
The Abbey was founded in 1132 and it was one of the largest and most important Cistercian monastries in England for much of it’s 407 year existence. By the early 16th Century it was also one of the wealthiest and therefore a prime target for Henry VIII and the dissolution of the monastories in 1539.
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There are a number of ruined abbeys in and around the Yorkshire Dales. I’ve already posted about Bolton Abbey, and I have a post on Fountains Abbey to come. Today though is the turn of Jervaulx Abbey.
Like many religious houses in England and Wales, the 12th Century Cistercian Abbey at Jervaulx was ravaged by Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monastries circa 1540.
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A few shots of Richmond and it’s 11th Century Castle:
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The 12th Century fortress of Barnard Castle sits above the River Tees in County Durham:
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Not as popular or well known as it’s more famous neighbour Wensleydale, Swaledale is no less beautiful:
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The 12th Century Augustinian Priory lies at the heart of the Bolton Abbey estate near Skipton on the Southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales:
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