Tolsta Chaolais

Tolsta Chaolais
Tolsta Chaolais
	Tolsta Chaolais village, across Loch a' Bhaile
	Tolsta Chaolais Location within the Outer Hebrides
Language	Scottish Gaelic; English
OS grid reference	NB194379
Civil parish	Uig;
Council area	Na h-Eileanan Siar;
Lieutenancy area	Western Isles;
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ISLE OF LEWIS
Postcode district	HS2
Dialling code	01851
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Na h-Eileanan an Iar;
Scottish Parliament	Na h-Eileanan an Iar;
	List of places UK Scotland 58°14′28″N 6°46′55″W / 58.241°N 6.782°W

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[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Tolsta Chaolais". Hebridean Connections. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
^ "Lewis, Tolsta Chaolais". Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
^ Land by Fay Godwin, Heinnemann 1985, ISBN 0-434-30305-4
^ "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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[HC1-1] "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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