Kames
Kames is a small village on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland, on the shore of the west arm of the Kyles of Bute. Kames is now part of a continuous coastal strip of housing that joins onto Tighnabruaich.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Kames, Argyll”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Michael’s Grave,chambered tomb,Kilmichael and Tighnabruaich Lifeboat Station.
St Michael’s Grave,chambered tomb,Kilmichael
Archaeological site
Photo: Elliott Simpson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Michael’s Grave,chambered tomb,Kilmichael is an archaeological site, which is situated 1½ miles southeast of Kames.
Tighnabruaich Lifeboat Station
Building
Photo: Johnny Durnan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tighnabruaich Lifeboat Station is located at the harbour at Tighnabruaich, a village on the Cowal peninsula, on the Kyles of Bute, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
Asgog Loch
Photo: Leslie Barrie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Asgog Loch is a natural freshwater loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is located about 4 kilometres southwest of Tighnabruaich, on the Cowal peninsula. Asgog Loch is situated 1½ miles southwest of Kames.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tighnabruaich and Millhouse.
Tighnabruaich
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tighnabruaich is a village on the Cowal Peninsula, on the western arm of the Kyles of Bute in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. In 2011 the population was 660.
Millhouse
Village
Photo: Phil Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Millhouse is a village in the parish of Kilfinan. Located on the B8000 inland from Kames in the east and Portavadie in the west, on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland.
Polphail
Locality
Polphail was a ghost village, located at Portavadie in Argyll & Bute, Scotland. Originally built in the 1970s, it was never occupied and was demolished in 2016. Polphail is situated 3 miles southwest of Kames.
Kames
- Category: locality
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.89312° or 55° 53′ 35″ northLongitude
-5.24486° or 5° 14′ 42″ westElevation
95 feet (29 metres)Open location code
9C7PVQV4+63OpenStreetMap ID
node 32701117OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Irish—“Kames” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Kames (Argyll)”
- Basque: “Kames”
- Dutch: “Kames, Argyll”
- Dutch: “Kames”
- French: “Kames, Argyll”
- French: “Kames”
- German: “Kames, Argyll”
- German: “Kames”
- Irish: “Camas nam Muclach”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kyles Parish Church and Kames Hall.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kames”. Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.