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Ballantrae Lifeboat Station was located on the south-west coast of Scotland at Ballantrae, a village approximately 17 miles (27 km) north of Stranraer, in the county of South Ayrshire, historically Ayrshire. [1] A lifeboat was first stationed at Ballantrae by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in 1871. [2]
Ballantrae is located near microgranite batholith, Ailsa Craig. In June 1673, while holding a conventicle at Knockdow near Ballantrae, Alexander Peden was captured by Major William Cockburn, and condemned by the Privy Council to four years and three months' imprisonment on the Bass Rock and a further fifteen months in the Edinburgh Tolbooth.
Glenapp Castle is near Ballantrae in South Ayrshire and overlooks several islands: Ailsa Craig, Arran and Mull of Kintyre. The site is also close to Galloway Forest Park, Mull of Galloway, Culzean Castle and several botanical gardens such as Logan Gardens, Castle Kennedy Gardens. The actual castle and its buildings are almost 1 mile (1.5 ...
Ballantrae (in the 1951 Trevor Howard film Gift Horse; based on HMS Campbeltown, portrayed by HMS Leamington) Compass Rose and Saltash Castle (in the 1953 film The Cruel Sea; portrayed by corvettes HMS Coreopsis and HMS Portchester Castle. In Nicholas Monsarrat's original book, HMS Saltash was a larger River-class frigate)
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Heronsford is a hamlet located near Ballantrae that sits along the bank of the Water of Tig, a tributary of the River Stinchar. A single road, the C45, passes through Heronsford, connecting it with the villages of Ballantrae and Colmonell, with a small bridge crossing the Water of Tig known as Heronsford Bridge.
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Literature. Naguib Mahfouz's 1967 novel, Miramar, focuses on the lives of the long-term residents of the eponymous pension in Alexandria in the 1960s.; E. M. Forster's 1908 novel, A Room with a View, opens with the protagonist Lucy Honeychurch and her spinster cousin and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett complaining about the Pensione Bertolini, where they are staying in Florence, Italy.