Campbeltown Kintyre Argyll
This video is of Campbeltown, Kintyre, Argyll. Taken December 2018 and most driving around Campbeltown, with some clips of A83 West Road, Southend, Bellochantay, Tarbert, Ardrishaig, Rest and be Thankful and Loch Lomond (Sorry for the dirty car window)
Davaar Island East Coast Of Kintyre Argyll and Bute Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of Davaar Island, Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Dà Bhàrr, is located at the mouth of Campbeltown Loch off the east coast of Kintyre, in Argyll and Bute. It is a tidal island, linked to the mainland by a natural shingle causeway called the Dhorlin near Campbeltown at low tide. The crossing can be made in around 40 minutes. Davaar was known as the island of Sanct Barre between the years 1449 to 1508. The island is also known for its seven caves, one of which contains a life size cave painting depicting the crucifixion, painted in 1887 by local artist Archibald MacKinnon after he had a vision in a dream suggesting him to do so. Davaar Island is one of 43 tidal islands that can be walked to from the mainland of Great Britain and one of 17 that can be walked to from the Scottish mainland. In 1854, a Lighthouse was built on the north of the island by the lighthouse engineers David and Thomas Stevenson. The lighthouse was automated in 1983, and today, Davaar is inhabited by caretakers, sheep, goats and mink.
Old Photographs Campbeltown Scotland
Tour Scotland video of old Photographs of Campbeltown a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is situated by Campbeltown Loch on the Kintyre peninsula. Campbeltown is one of five areas in Scotland categorised as a distinct malt whisky producing region, and is home to the Campbeltown single malts. At one point it had over 30 distilleries and proclaimed itself the whisky capital of the world . However, a focus on quantity rather than quality, and the combination of prohibition and the Great Depression in the United States, led to most distilleries going out of business, Hugh Henry Brackenridge was born in 1748, near Campbeltown. He was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. A frontier citizen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, he founded both the Pittsburgh Academy, now the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Gazette, still operating today as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Brackenridge died June 25, 1816 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Duncan McNab McEachran was born on 27 October 1841 in Campbeltown. He was a Canadian veterinarian and academic. He was the son of David McEachran and Jean Blackney, McEachran graduated from the Edinburgh Veterinary College in 1861 and received his license to practice from Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. In 1862, he emigrated to Canada West, settling in Woodstock. In 1863, he helped set up, along with primary founder Andrew Smith, the Upper Canada Veterinary School, later the Ontario Veterinary College. McEachran was a staff member but he considered the admission standards and academic requirements to be inadequate. He left after three years, moving to Montreal. In 1867, Smith and McEachran again joined forces to publish the first veterinary textbook in Canada for farmers, The Canadian horse and his diseases. He died on 13 October 1924.
Places to see in ( Campbeltown - UK )
Places to see in ( Campbeltown - UK )
Campbeltown; is a town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies by Campbeltown Loch on the Kintyre peninsula. Originally known as Kinlochkilkerran (an anglicization of the Gaelic, which means head of the loch by the kirk of Ciarán), it was renamed in the 17th century as Campbell's Town after Archibald Campbell (Earl of Argyle) was granted the site in 1667. Campbeltown became an important centre for shipbuilding and Scotch whisky, and a busy fishing port.
There are several listed buildings in Category A in the town and include the following. Campbeltown boasts a museum and a heritage centre. The museum has a varied collection of items from Campbeltown's past, and prehistoric items excavated from sites around Kintyre, such as axeheads, jewellery and combs. The 19th century building, by John James Burnet, also houses a library and has plaques or exhibits related to famous Kintyre people: for example, William McTaggart and William Mackinnon. Near the museum is the cinema known as the Wee Picture House, a small but distinctive Art Nouveau building of the Glasgow School dating from 1913 and believed to be the oldest surviving purpose-built cinema in Scotland. These buildings are on the waterfront, as is a 14th-century Celtic cross that also served as a mercat cross.
St Kieran (Ciarán of Clonmacnoise) lived in this area before the town existed. A cave named after him can be visited at low tide, as can the cave on nearby Davaar Island where pilgrims and tourists go to see a 19th-century crucifixion painting. Campbeltown also hosts the annual Mull Of Kintyre Music Festival, which has seen acts ranging from up-and-coming local bands to well-established groups such as Deacon Blue, The Stranglers and Idlewild perform.
A recent addition has been the Kintyre Songwriters Festival, a fairly low key annual gathering aimed at promoting the wealth and variety of original music across the area. The festival is held during the last weekend of May and is open to anyone interested in performing. On Friday 16 June 2006, First Minister Jack McConnell flew to Campbeltown to officially open Campbeltown's new 'Aqualibrium' Centre. Aqualibrium, designed by PagePark Architects, replaced the old Campbeltown swimming pool, which closed 7 years ago due to safety concerns; the centre houses Campbeltown's library (with the old building being the museum only), swimming pool, gym, conference centre and 'Mussel Ebb' Cafe. The Kintyre Camanachd are a local shinty team that belongs to the Camanachd Association.
Campbeltown Airport is near the town, and has a scheduled service to/from Glasgow International Airport on weekdays and some summer Sundays. The town is the westernmost town in the island of Great Britain (if the port of Mallaig is not counted as a town). It has the population of a large village, but lays claim to its town status based on its port and its central close grid of streets. Its position near the end of a long peninsula makes for a time-consuming road journey, and to some extent the area relies on sea and air transport, like the Inner Hebrides. However it is linked to the rest of Scotland by the A83 (to Tarbet) and A82 (from Tarbet to Glasgow). Bus service is provided by West Coast Motors.
Campbeltown was linked to Machrihanish by a canal (1794-mid-1880s) that was superseded by the Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway, which closed in 1932. The railway, which was originally built to serve the Machrihanish Coalfield, ran from Campbeltown railway station to Machrihanish railway station.
( Campbeltown - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Campbeltown . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Campbeltown - UK
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Old Photographs Southend Argyll And Bute Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Southend, Scottish Gaelic: Ceann mu Dheas, the main settlement at the southern end of the Kintyre peninsula in Argyll and Bute. The village is located beside Dunaverty Bay, which at one end has a rocky promontory called Dunaverty Rock, where a fort was located. It is reputed that during the Dunaverty Massacre the Catholic MacDonalds were burned alive in their stronghold at Dunaverty Castle. The village is also reputed to be the location where Saint Columba first set foot in Scotland. The Battle of Dunaverty involved a battle in 1647. The events involved the Covenanter Army under the command of General David Leslie on one side and Highland troops under the command of Archibald Og of Sanda on the other. When the Covenanter Army arrived, they laid siege to the nearby castle and made small raids against the forces inside. Once the attackers had captured the stronghold's water supply, the defenders–by now running out of water–requested a surrender on fair terms. After agreeing to surrender and leaving the castle, the men, women and children were put to the sword at the request of Reverend John Naves and Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll. However, a number of people appear to have survived the massacre, including Flora McCambridge, the infant Ranald MacDonald of Sanda, James Stewart and a MacDougall of Kilmun. The village hall, now the Dunaverty Hall, was built as a drill hall in about 1913. In 1914 it was the base for C Company, 8th battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Records also show the existence of a drill hall in 1882 which was the base of G Company, 2nd Argyll Rifle Volunteers, from 1887 the 5th Volunteer Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
The Heart & Soul of Scotland - Glasgow & Kintyre
Here’s why you should pair Glasgow and Kintyre in your next short break. You’ll have a dram good time!
Muasdale Holiday Park
View from Award Winning Muasdale Holiday Park, on the Kintyre Peninsula, West Coast of Scotland
Drone video: Saddell Castle, Kintyre, Argyll and Bute
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Birds eye view of Dunaverty
Quad flight over and around my wee toon in Southend ,Kintyre featuring, Dunaverty Castle (or what's left of it )how would you look after 800 years and Oliver Cromwell. the famous golf course . From a birds perspective. The whole fascinating history is on Wikipedia
Thanks to Paul McCartney for the music, this is the place where Linda and him once lived ,The Mull of Kintyre.
Wings - Mull of Kintyre.
Mull of Kintyre is a popular 1977 song by Paul McCartney and his band Wings released 11 November. The song was written by McCartney and bandmate Denny Laine in tribute to the picturesque Kintyre peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, where McCartney had owned a home and recording studio, Carskiey Estate, since the late 1960s, and its headland or mull.
The song was Wings' biggest hit in the United Kingdom where it became Christmas number one, and was the first single to sell over two million copies in the UK.
Bagpipes from Kintyre's local Campbeltown Pipe Band were included as a prominent part of the recording.
HH boys camping trip to Ardgartan
A few pictures of the trip.
UK first SPACEPORT moves a step closer with new legislation due to be passed today - 247 News
The UK’s first spaceport will take a major step towards becoming a reality as new laws are due to be passed today.The Space Industry Bill - legislation that will allow rockets to launch from UK spaceports - is due to be given Royal Assent later today.If passed, this will help British companies to have faster and cheaper access to space, without having to travel to spaceports abroad.The main aim of the bill is to increase the UK’s share of the global space economy from 6.5% to 10% by 2030.Jo Johnson, Transport Minister, said: “Access to space is the final piece of the puzzle for the UK space sector and forms part of the government’s Industrial Strategy – helping to drive growth across the country and unlocking hundreds of highly-skilled jobs in our regions.“The Space Industry Bill gives companies the ability to launch satellites from UK soil, putting us at the forefront of the new space race, and helping us to compete as the destination of choice for satellite companies worldwide.” Several coastal aerodromes that could be converted to space ports have previously been shortlisted, including Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute; Glasgow Prestwick; Stornoway, Isle of Lewis; Newquay, Cornwall and Llanbedr, Gwynedd.It is envisaged space planes could fly from a British spaceport both to place satellites in orbit and to carry fee-paying passengers on sub-orbital flights.Dr Graham Turnock, Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency, added: “The Space Industry Bill guarantees the sky is not the limit for future generations of engineers, entrepreneurs and scientists.“We will set out how we plan to accelerate the development of the first commercial launch services from the UK, and realise the full potential of this enabling legislation over the coming months.
Mull of Kintyre to Ireland Swim - funny discussion on the tides
Wayne Soutter, Swimming the North Channel from the Mull of Kintyre to Northern Ireland
A drive through Tarbert, situated on the banks of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Scotland.
A drive through Tarbert was filmed on Sunday, 13th March 2016.
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Please watch: Motorhome Wild Camping between Skipness and the Calmac ferry terminal at Claonaig on Kintyre, Argyll
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The Road To Kintyre,Scotland
Family trip to kintyre
Knapdale
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Knapdale forms a rural district of Argyll and Bute in the Scottish Highlands, adjoining Kintyre to the south, and divided from the rest of Argyll to the north by the Crinan Canal.It includes two parishes, North Knapdale and South Knapdale.
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Saddell Bay Landmark Trust
An aerial tour of the six Landmark Trust buildings at Saddell Bay, Kintyre- all available for short holiday breaks
Crinan Basin, West Scotland
The tiny harbour village of Crinan lies on the west coast of Scotland at the entrance of the Crinan Canal.
The Crinan Canal starts at Ardrishaig on Loch Fyne, and ends nine miles away at Crinan on the Sound of Jura. It was designed to provide a quick link between the west coast and islands at one end and the Clyde Estuary at the other, and so avoid the long voyage around the south end of the Kintyre peninsula.
Work started on the canal in 1794 under John Rennie and it was opened in 1801: two years late, significantly over-budget, and not properly finished. Early problems with water levels and collapsing locks and reservoirs led to Thomas Telford being asked to redesign parts of of the canal in 1816. The locks were again reconstructed and deepened in the 1930s, and the canal became the responsibility of British Waterways in 1962. It is now looked after by Scottish Canals.
In the nine miles from Ardrishaig to Crinan there are 15 locks and the canal reaches a height of 65 feet above sea level. The summit reach of the canal is relatively short and every time a boat goes through the locks about 300,000 litres of water are used. No fewer than seven reservoirs feed the summit reach to try to ensure that the Crinan Canal does not run dry.
Every year two to three thousand vessels, mostly pleasure craft, use the canal. This is a far cry from the early days when the canal formed a vital link in Scotland's transport system. Until the coming of the railways the fastest way to travel between Glasgow and Inverness was by steamer using the Crinan Canal and the Caledonian Canal, usually calling at Oban en route.
The Crinan Canal's starting point is at Ardrishaig, a little under two miles south of Lochgilphead. After a basin and several locks the canal parallels the shore of Loch Gilp and the A83. It then skirts the western side of Lochgilphead before striking inland to cross the peninsula.
At Cairnbaan there are more locks and the attractive Cairnbaan Hotel and its restaurant. More locks at Dunardry mark the end of a summit reach that is less than a mile long. At Bellanoch the canal reaches the sea again, but does not yet join it. Instead it runs parallel to the shore of Loch Crinan.
Bellanoch is home to a large basin where craft are moored, and from here the canal continues along the shoreline to Crinan. Before it gets there, however, it is crossed at Crinan Bridge by a road bridge where the B831 peters to an end. On the opposite shore is Crinan Ferry. There has been no ferry here for forty years, but this is a quiet and attractive spot where you can enjoy the canal and the surrounding scenery to the full.
The canal enters Crinan along the shore from the east. Here it is locked into Crinan Harbour, one of the most attractive spots in Scotland. Boat users looking to spend time here can make use of the moorings in a side channel off the basin. This originally formed the sea lock until the current one was excavated in the 1930s.
Those wanting to follow the canal to its natural conclusion should take the sea lock into Loch Crinan. Then it's a simple left turn and you are into the north end of the Sound of Jura.
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Kintyre Campbelltown Tarbert Tour
Tour around the Kintyre penninsula looking east to the Isle of Arran, occasional glimpses of Ailsa Craig, stopping at Campbelltown and Tarbert. November 2016
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Oban to Mull Ferry
On the ferry from Oban To Craignure on Mull