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Saturday 5 January 2008

Best Scottish Tours of Blackhouses


Best Scottish Tours of Blackhouses. As the name suggests, this humble Hebridean dwelling is dark and smoke-stained inside, but the term blackhouse came into use as a way of distinguishing the traditional Lewis dwellings from the white-walled mainland type of house that first appeared in the 1850s.

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