Churches
Borve Free Church was built by local men in 1895 at the junction between the A857 and Church Street, and was extended in the 1980s to include a hall to the rear. Members of the Free Church of Scotland attend some services in Borve but belong to the congregation of Barvas, where services are held more frequently. To the north of the church stood a property which housed a missionary until the 1970s, when provision for a missionary ceased and it was sold.
Previously there was also a Church of Scotland church, about 400 yards south of the Free Church. This comprised a small single storey building with a meeting room to the front and a residence for the lay preacher to the back. Having gone out of use as a church in the 1970s, it was used as a hairdressing salon and then a private house.
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