This is in Argyll if you find yourself in that direction on any tours of Scotland. It is dramatically situated on the rocky West coast of Knapdale. Castle Sween is interesting as it is of high architectural importance. The castle appears to be the earliest stone castle in...
Not, as the name might suggest, situated in the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, but in Knapdale, Loch Stornoway is barely deserving of the title of loch at all. It is little more than a sandy bay on the west of the tongue...
Cutting through the long tongue on the west coast which comprises Knapdale and Kintyre, the Crinan Canal links the Sound of Jura with Loch Fyne. It enabled ships to reach the Western Isles considerably sooner, and with less threat from the weather, than before: the...