Phentland Rd - Isle of Lewis - Western Isles
The Phentland road was a Government funded road approved by an Act of Parliament in 1891. The project was put on hold for many years after contractors went "bust" and was completed in 1912
 |
Phentland Road
Isle of Lewis - Western Isles |
|
 |
Scenery seen from the Pentland Rd
Western Isles |
|
 |
Lovely Scenery Seen
When Travelling the Pentland Road |
|
| |
|
 |
|
|
| |
 |
Old & The New
Pentland Road - View of Turbines |
|
 |
Red Grouse Seen on
The Moorland along The Pentland Rd |
|
 |
Buzzard - Bird Sightings, You
often see these along Pentland Rd |
|
|
|
|
| |
 |
The Phentland Rd
Isle of Lewis |
|
 |
| A Sheiling along The
Pentland Rd - Western Isles |
|
 |
Pentland Rd
Isle of Lewis
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Click the pictures below for larger images
Isle of Lewis - History - Phentland Road - Western Isles History
Some have attributed the Pentland Road to be another of Lord Leverhulme's plans which never materialised. However the road /railway plans which were to have linked the harbour's of Carloway and Stornoway were about well before Lord Leverhulme bought the islands.
