Argyll and Bute

Argyll and Bute is one of Scotland’s most naturally diverse locations

Argyll and Bute is a region in the western Scottish Highlands. It’s a ramshackle, disparate region, but you can’t blame the planners who created it from other counties in 1974. Blame the fjords, those long cold sea lochs that break up its terrain and force the roads to wind around and double back. What united it in the 19th and early 20th centuries was in-shore shipping from Glasgow using the Crinan Canal as a shortcut: a fleet of “Clyde Puffers” like those of the Para Handy Tales of Neil Munro.

This page describes the Argyll & Bute mainland, plus those islands that are only a short ferry ride (ie Bute, Gigha, Luing, Easdale and Kerrara) or connected by a bridge (Seil). It doesn’t include those with a longer sea crossing – they’re part of this same region but feel quite different in character. They’re described under Inner Hebrides, mainly Islay, Jura, Mull, Tiree, Coll, Colonsay and Lismore.

Bodering Loch Lomond and the Trossachs toward the East and stretches of islands out across the west coast, Argyll and Bute is perhaps of Scotland’s most normally different area. Whether it’s the enchanting coastline torment of Oban or the features of the Hebrides like Jura, Islay and Think about, there genuinely is a here thing for every individual who visits. Here, the excellence of nature is the establishment on which everything is worked, from sandy sea shores to thick backwoods to stretches of beach front wild that brings out a lot of show. On account of its normal excellence, the district has likewise showed up on film many times throughout the long term, giving clearing, emotional scenes for everything from non mainstream elements to gigantic blockbusters. Extremely observant guests will perceive the moving slopes from James Cling’s ‘To Russia, With Affection’ and the blockbuster ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Realm’, as well as having name-looked at in the Wings’ track ‘Reflect of Kintyre’. Past its standing as an incredible recording area, there’s a lot to see and do here. Absorb its broad history at one of its many palaces, see where 48 old Scottish lords were covered at Iona Monastery, or test your strolling skill on the West Good country Way, which goes straightforwardly through Argyll and Bute.