Tong is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 58.2442°, -6.3486°.

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Tong

Tong in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

Unusual Greenhouse at Tunga - geograph.org.uk - 503489 — Gordon Hatton — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 4 h–12 h

Tong is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

Tong (Scottish Gaelic: Tunga from Old Norse: Tunga) is a village on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, 4 miles (6 kilometres) northeast of the main town of Stornoway on the B895 road to Back and Tolsta. The population of the village is 527 (2001 census). Fishing forms part of the local economy. The mainland of Scotland is 40 nautical miles (75 kilometres) away via a two-hour ferry ride.

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Background

History

Until the 13th century, Lewis – and Tong with it – was part of Norway. Fishing, farming and weaving made up Tong's economy by the 1800s. Many families moved to Tong, causing "horrific overcrowding." Scottish historian James Hunter quotes a mainland land manager's 1828 description: “It is worse than anything I ever saw in Donegal [in Ireland] where I always considered human wretchedness to have reached its very acme.” Between 1919 and 1921, Tong, along with nearby Coll and Gress, was the scene of several land raids. (See the Coll, Lewis article for more). During the land raids, men raided estates with absentee landlords by planting crops and marking out farms on land used for sheep herding.…

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