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 Originally built as a
private family home in
1900,
the Temple View became a guest house in the 1930's, before being more
recently converted to a small, luxury hotel.
The bedrooms are well appointed with quality
furnishings and fabrics, TV, hospitality tray, phone and ensuite
facilities. You'll find fresh fruit and mineral water in the
hallway outside your room. Some bedrooms, including a well
equipped disabled guest room, are sited in a ground floor wing.
Public rooms include a sun lounge, from
which you
may be lucky enough to view a dramatic Hebridean sunset, a lounge bar
with leather sofas and chairs, plus a restaurant that is also popular
with local residents - many guests compliment the hotel on the quality
of food served.
Outside, summer bedding plants, lawns and
shrubs
thrive under the attention of Harvey, the chef/proprietor, who enjoys
nurturing a garden that defeats the odds.
The hotel is situated in a
village, overlooking a tidal inlet that separates the island of
Baleshare from North Uist. It's roughly two-thirds of the way
from Eriskay to Berneray, and is convenient for many attractions, such
as the Hebridean Smokehouse, Hebridean Kitchen, Balranald RSPB reserve,
plus the sandy beach and dunes at Balemartin.
Click
here for directions from Berneray Ferry
Click
here for directions from Benbecula Airport
Click
here for directions from Lochmaddy Ferry
Click
here for directions from Eriskay Ferry
View
the hotel photo gallery (opens in new window).
Suggestion
From the hotel, you can walk around a quarter of a mile over the fields
to the ruins of the temple - in gaelic, Teampull na Trionaid, meaning
Church of the Holy Trinity. The church is said to have been founded by
Bethag, daughter of Somerled, in the 1100s.
Your walk to the temple crosses the scene of the Battle of Carinish
(1601). Its' said that the Macleods of Harris attacked the
resident MacDonalds when one of them planned to divorce his Macleod
wife. The Macleods were defeted and the site is now known as
the
'ditch of blood.'
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