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Bayble ( gd, Pabail) is a large village in Point (''An Rubha''), on the Isle of Lewis, east of Stornoway. Bayble is also within the parish of Stornoway. There are around 400 people living in Bayble. It is separated into Upper and Lower Bayble by a
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at the bottom of the valley. Upper Bayble ( gd, Pabail Uarach) had a community shop, Murdo's, which has now closed after 44 years of service. Upper Bayble has produced three internationally recognised writers of poetry and prose,
Iain Crichton Smith Iain Crichton Smith, (Gaelic: ''Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn''; 1 January 1928 – 15 October 1998) was a Scottish poet and novelist, who wrote in both English and Gaelic. He was born in Glasgow, but moved to the Isle of Lewis at the age of two, ...
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Derick Thomson Derick Smith Thomson (Scottish Gaelic: ''Ruaraidh MacThòmais''; 5 August 1921, Stornoway – 21 March 2012, Glasgow) was a Scottish poet, publisher, lexicographer, academic and writer. He was originally from Lewis, but spent much of his life ...
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Anne Frater Anne Frater (b. 1967) is a Scottish poet. She was born in Stornoway ( Steòrnabhagh), in Lewis on the Western Isles (na h-Eileanan Siar). She was brought up in the village of Upper Bayble (Pabail Uarach) in the district of Point, a small community ...
. The former writing predominantly in
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and the latter two writing almost exclusively in Gaelic. Lower Bayble ( gd, Pabail Iarach) is a seaside crofting township. The village overlooks Bayble Bay (''Bàgh Phabail''), with Bayble Island (''Eilean Phabail'') at the south end and Eilean a' Chàise to the north.


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Canmore - Lewis, Lower Bayble site recordCanmore - Lewis, Lower Bayble, Clach Stein site recordCanmore - Lewis, Lower Bayble, Loch An Duin site record
Villages in the Isle of Lewis {{WesternIsles-geo-stub