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The village was finally demolished by December 2016, [10] at a cost of £300,000, with a planning application submitted for a craft distillery on the site. [ 11 ] Today, Portavadie comprises eight individual houses, a row of detached holiday houses built as part of the marina development, and the ferry terminal across Loch Fyne to Tarbert.
Penelope Anne Constance Hatfield was born in Sutton, Surrey in 1940. [2] Her father, an army officer who was a Major by the end of the Second World War, left her mother, Connie, when Keith was a baby, and she spent her early years in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex and Clapham, south London.
Villages located in Argyll and Bute, one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland. See also: Category:Towns in Argyll and Bute . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Villages in Argyll and Bute .
This List of places in Argyll and Bute is a list of links for any town, village, hamlet, castle, golf course, historic house, lighthouse, nature reserve, reservoir, river, canal, and other place of interest in the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland.
The present village was started in the 1930s with the building of 4 semi-detached bungalows now numbered 9, 10, 11 and 12. This was part of a nationwide scheme to help overcome high unemployment during the depression. Each house had land at the back to keep hens on and had land down near the sea pool for growing vegetables.
Tighnabruaich; (/ ˌ t aɪ n ə ˈ b r uː ə x / ⓘ; Scottish Gaelic: Taigh na Bruaich) 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. [2] It is west of Glasgow and north of the Isle of Arran.
Portavadie (Scottish Gaelic: Port a' Mhadaidh) is a village on the shores of Loch Fyne on the coast of the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, West of Scotland. [1]The Portavadie complex was built in 1975 [2] by the then Scottish Office for the purpose of constructing concrete platforms for extraction of oil from the North Sea.
Achnamara (Scottish Gaelic: Achadh na Mara) is a village in the Scottish council area of Argyll and Bute. [1] Its location is approximately 56°1' N 5°34' W. Achnamara means 'field by the sea'. The name is formed from the Gaelic words achadh 'field', the definite article an , and muir 'sea'.