The heyday of the Home Shootings

One of the greatest lost shoots of the British Isles is the Lews Castle Home Shootings, situated on the outskirts of the town of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. It provided superlative walked-up wild gamebird shooting, deerstalking and angling facilities for successive owners and their guests, as well as a number of seasonal sporting tenants, from the mid-Victorian period until 1924.

Sportsmen usually travelled to this far-flung outpost of Scotland on the overnight sleeper from London to Inverness, then onwards by train to Stromeferry or Kyle of Lochalsh, before taking a steamer or private yacht to their final destination, a journey that took around 24