Portnahaven
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Portnahaven (, meaning river port) is a village on Islay in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. The village is within the parish of Kilchoman.
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Place details
- Locality
- Port Wemyss
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Portnahaven
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Port na h-Abhainne
- UK place.static_image_name
- Portnahaven.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- A view of the North side of Portnahaven and its harbour
- UK place.population
- 150
- UK place.population_ref
- (1991)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NR170521
- UK place.civil_parish
- Kilchoman
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Argyll and Bute
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Argyll and Bute
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Argyll and Bute
- UK place.post_town
- ISLE OF ISLAY
- UK place.postcode_district
- PA47
- UK place.postcode_area
- PA
- UK place.dial_code
- 01496
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Portnahaven (, meaning river port) is a village on Islay in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. The village is within the parish of Kilchoman.
It was founded by Walter Campbell of Shawfield after he purchased the Sunderland estate in 1788 and it was further developed in the 1820s by his son Captain Walter Campbell of Foreland and Sunderland. Portnahaven Parish Church was erected in 1828 as a Telford Parliamentary church to the designs of Thomas Telford and the architect William Thomson.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Portnahaven” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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