Caledonian MacBrayne ferries sail from the village to Uig on Skye, as well as from the island of Berneray ( which is connected to North Uist by road causeway ), to Leverburgh in Harris.

The airport on the island, is located between Uig and Arileod.

Stornoway is also the public transport hub of Lewis, and bus services provides links to Point, Ness, Back and Tolsta, Uig, the West Side, Lochs and Tarbert, Harris.

Uig (), also known as Sgìr ' Ùig, is a civil parish and community on the western coast of the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

The district known locally in Lewis as Uig is also called West Uig and is broadly the area west of Little Loch Roag.

Uig Beach () is surrounded by the villages of Cradhlasta ( Crowlista ), Tuimisgearraidh ( Timsgarry ), Eadar Dhà Fhadhail ( Ardroil ) and Càrnais ( Carnish ).

Bhaltos ( Valtos ) is the largest village in Uig and is home to about 35 people.

Uig Beach () is best known as the site where the Lewis Chessmen () were found.

They are mostly carved from walrus tusks and probably originated in Norway sometime in the 12th century, although when and how they came to be in Uig is unknown.

Uig is the ancestral seat of the Clan MacAulay ( Mac Amhlaigh ) who are of Norse descent ( Olavsson ).

According to Lewis tradition, Uig is the birthplace of Coinneach Odhar, the Brahan Seer, a Nostradamus-type figure of the 16th century.

The Abhainn Dearg Distillery, which began distilling in 2009, is located at Carnish in Uig, and is the only working distillery in the Western Isles.

There is another village called Knock, in the district of Carloway, in the Uig Parish of Lewis.

Uig is situated partly on the raised beach around the head of the bay and partly on the steep slopes behind it.

Uig is served by the A87 road from Portree and Kyle of Lochalsh to the south and the A855 road which runs northwards around the end of the Trotternish peninsula before also turning south to Portree.

As of August, 2006, Uig is accessible via intercity buses on Skye, and Scottish Citylink buses, which travel as far south as Fort William and Glasgow.

Uig parish contains 36 settlements.

West Uig was a district of 2, 000 people around the 1841 census but the Highland clearances had set in by then and this parish suffered greatly.

The remainder of his family was of Scottish descent, and both his mother's father's parents were native Scottish Gaelic speakers from Fife ( unusually, for a speaker of the language ) and Uig on the Isle of Skye.

There are no direct ferry services from Benbecula to the mainland, but a service operated by Caledonian MacBrayne from Lochboisdale on South Uist provides a five-hour crossing to Oban on the mainland, whilst another service from Lochmaddy on North Uist provides a two-hour crossing to Uig on the Inner Hebridean island of Skye, and hence to the mainland via the Skye Bridge.

and these are said to be descended from a watchman of the Macaulays of Uig, who gave

It runs west from its junction with the A82 road at Invergarry (), along the north shores of Loch Garry and Loch Cluanie, then down through Glen Shiel and along Loch Duich to Kyle of Lochalsh before crossing the Skye Bridge to Kyleakin, Broadford, and Portree, before terminating at Uig on the west coast of the Isle of Skye.

The MacIver family from Uig were founders of the Cunard Shipping Line in Liverpool.

Two watercourses enter the bay at Uig ; the River Rha from the north and the River Conon which drains Glen Uig to the east.

Uigg, Prince Edward Island, Canada was named by settlers from Uig.

Single track road from Uig take you round to Staffin.

As a result, many of the characters are named after British towns or other features: Gulliver Foyle ( and his pseudonym, Fourmyle of Ceres ), Robin Wednesbury, the Presteign clan, Regis Sheffield, Y ' ang-Yeovil, Saul Dagenham, Sam Quatt, Rodger Kempsey, the Bo ' ness and Uig shipyard.

On Lewis, the chiefs of the Morrison clan ( earlier, Clann mhic Amhlaigh ( Macaulays ) of Uig in Lewis, and Sliochd a ' Bhreitheimh, later Morrison ) continued to hold office as hereditary brieves ( Scots for bretheamh or brehon ) or judges of the MacLeod clan of Lewis into the seventeenth century.

It consists of scattered settlements around the bay of Camas Uig and the Bhaltos peninsula.

West Uig contains 20 settlements.

The chessmen are now in the Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh with an overseas exhibit in the British Museum in London, England, and replicas in the Uig Heritage Centre in Tuimisgearraidh.

Uig was the place of discovery of the Lewis Chessmen in 1831.

The three major settlements on Trotternish are Portree ( generally regarded as the capital of Skye ), Uig and Staffin.

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