North Newton

Places of Interest

Lochranza Castle

Castle

Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lochranza Castle is an L-plan fortified tower house situated on a promontory in Lochranza, on the northern part of the Isle of Arran in Scotland. Most of the current structure was built in the 16th century.

Torr Meadhonach

Peak

Photo: Dave souza, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Torr Meadhonach is a hill 332 metres high at the northernmost part of the Isle of Arran in western Scotland, east of the village of Lochranza.

Lochranza distillery

Distillery

Photo: paul birrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Lochranza distillery is a whisky distillery in Lochranza, Scotland, on the Isle of Arran. It primarily releases its whisky under the Arran name. In 1994 Arran Distillers Ltd. was founded by Harold Currie, former director of Chivas and a D-Day veteran, with the intention of building a distillery on Arran.

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Lochranza

Village

Photo: Markarianuk, Public domain.

The Isle of Arran is part of Ayrshire in southwest Scotland. It lies in the Firth of Clyde, the broad reach of sea southwest of Glasgow and enclosed by the Ayrshire coast to the east and the Kintyre peninsula to the west.

Catacol

Village

Photo: Wendy Kirkwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Catacol is a small village on the Isle of Arran, in the council area of North Ayrshire, Scotland. Catacol is situated 2 miles southwest of North Newton.

Skipness

Village

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Tarbert is a village in Argyll and Bute on the west coast of Scotland. An Tairbeart is a Gaelic term meaning "carry across", indicating an isthmus where small boats could be portaged from one body of water to another. Skipness is situated 4½ miles northwest of North Newton.

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