Stornoway

Stornoway, a seaport and important fishery-station in Lewis, the chief town of the Outer Hebrides, near the head of a spacious sea-loch, 59 miles N. by W. of Portree in Skye and 180. of Oban. The principal feature is Stornoway Castle, completed in 1870 by Sir James Matheson (1796-1878), at a cost, with the grounds, of £89,000. Pop. (1841) 1354; (1891) 3387.