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Knock, Isle of Lewis

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Knock Primary school opened on 29 October 1878 and closed for the last time on 30 June 2011 when the pupils were moved to a new school in Bayble. The old school is now a locally run shop and café "Buth an Rubha & Cafe Roo" selling a wide range of everyday essentials and local produce. It opened
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Knock used to have a primary school and post office. The post office closed in 2008 along with many other post offices in the north west of Scotland.
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church, supplementing existing churches and reducing the distance people needed to walk to get to the former church. In the
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a high proportion left the established church to create Knock Free church (which is actually located in
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The village of Knock consists of between fifty and one hundred houses and is bordered to the south with
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There is another village called Knock, in the district of Carloway, in the Uig Parish of Lewis.
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in Gaelic) is connected by road across a narrow isthmus (barely 100 metres wide) to
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A church was established here in 1829 by Act of Parliament and served as a
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Scottish Gaelic

Knock is located in Outer Hebrides
Outer Hebrides
OS grid reference
NB4931
Council area
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Lieutenancy area
Western Isles
Country
Scotland
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
HS2
Dialling code
Police
Scotland
Fire
Scottish
Ambulance
Scottish
UK Parliament
Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Scottish Parliament
Na h-Eileanan an Iar
UK
Scotland
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