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Lochboisdale is built on a
headland projecting into the well sheltered Loch Baghasdail. It is best known
as the ferry port for
Castlebay on
Barra and for
Oban; and as a result is the main gateway to
South Uist. Little seems to have
happened here until the herring boom in the latter half of the 1800s, when it
developed as an important fishing station. Perhaps the most significant
development was the building of a steamer pier in 1880. (more...)
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