page_title: Harris, Outer Hebrides
section_title: North Harris
hierarchical_section_title: Harris, Outer Hebrides / Geography / North Harris
caption_attribution_description: Old Lazybeds The grassy ridges are the remnants of lazybeds made by crofters for cultivating crops in the poor soil. South Harris can be seen across the Soay Sound, with Soay Mor and Soay Beag in between.
context_page_description: Harris is the southern and more mountainous part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Although not an island itself, Harris is often referred to as the Isle of Harris, which is the former postal county and the current post town for Royal Mail postcodes starting HS3 or HS5; see HS postcode area.
  The civil parish of Harris is considered to include St Kilda, an uninhabited small archipelago 40 miles west-northwest of North Uist, and the uninhabited islet Rockall, which is 230 miles west of North Uist.
context_section_description: North Harris, adjoining Lewis, contains Clisham (An Cliseam), the highest mountain in the Outer Hebrides at 799 metres (2,621 ft). The area is sparsely populated. Beyond Tarbert, the furthest settlement is Hushinish (Hùisinis) on the west coast. A bridge from the east coast links Harris to the island of Scalpay (Sgalpaigh na Hearadh).
  In March 2003 the 25,300-hectare (62,500-acre) North Harris Estate was purchased by the North Harris Trust, a development trust, on behalf of the local community. In April 2006 the Trust hosted the Highlands and Islands Community Energy Company conference "Community Energy: Leading from the Edge" in Tarbert. In early 2008 the Trust received planning consent for three 86 metre (282 ft) wind turbines to be located at Monan. In 2008 Mike Russell, the Scottish environment minister announced that the North Harris Trust had begun canvassing local opinion about a proposal to create Scotland's third national park in the area.
caption: Old feannagan, or "lazy beds" on North Harris
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