Tolsta Chaolais (also Tolastadh Chaolais, Tolstadh a' Chaolais) is a village on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. It consists of about forty houses, clustered around Loch a' Bhaile, about 1 mile (1.5 kilometres) from the A858 road between Callanish and Carloway. The name has a Norse element, Tolsta, combined with a Gaelic element, Caolas, and means "Farm by the Strait".[1] Tolsta Chaolais is in the parish of Uig,[2] and has a building as a place of worship for all denominations.[1]

Tolsta Chaolais
Tolsta Chaolais village, across Loch a' Bhaile
Tolsta Chaolais Location within the Outer Hebrides
Language	Scottish Gaelic English
OS grid reference	NB194379
Civil parish	Uig
Council area	Na h-Eileanan Siar
Lieutenancy area	Western Isles
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ISLE OF LEWIS
Postcode district	HS2
Dialling code	01851
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Scottish Parliament	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
List of places UK Scotland 58.241°N 6.782°W / 58.241; -6.782

In 1979 the village was photographed by Fay Godwin as part of a landscape photography project funded by the Arts Council of Great Britain. One of Godwin's photographs of Tolsta Chaolais was published in her 1985 book of rural landscapes, Land.[3]

In 2013, the village was the location of much of the filming for the CBeebies children's television programme Katie Morag.[4]

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tolsta Chaolais.

• Village website
• Canmore - Lewis, Tolsta Chaolais, War Memorial site record
• Canmore - Lewis, Tolsta Chaolais, Horizontal Mill site record

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