Knock, Isle of Lewis

Knock, from the Gaelic, An Cnoc (a small hill), is a village in Point peninsula on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.

Point (an Rubha in Gaelic) is connected by road across a narrow isthmus (barely 100 metres wide) to Stornoway, the main administrative centre of the Western Isles.

The village of Knock consists of between fifty and one hundred houses and is bordered to the south with Swordale and to the north with Aignish.

There is another village called Knock, in the district of Carloway, in the Uig Parish of Lewis.

[1] Rev Roderick Macleod, minister of Knock, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1921.