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Inveraray - ancient Royal Burgh of Argyll

Author Holiday West Highland |

Young dancers with their trophies face the camera during Inveraray Highland Games held each year in July.
Young dancers with their trophies face the camera during Inveraray Highland Games held each year in July.
IT ISN’’T often a town is on the move but that is just what happened with the Royal Burgh of Inveraray. The town was already 300 years old when the Duke of Argyll decided to build his principal seat, Inveraray Castle, on its site so he simply moved the town to where it is today at its idyllic setting on Loch Fyne - that was in 1744.

The town then became the administrative centre of Argyll with a courthouse and 43 pubs, obviously not the quiet location it is today. Inveraray is unrivalled in its location. It looks down Loch Fyne and across the mountains and moorland, which is why it attracts visitors in their tens of thousands each year. The three-hundred-year-old courthouse and the nineteenth century Inveraray Jail are among the top attractions in Scotland and if you want to know what it feels like to be ‘banged up’ with no privileges then the jail can easily grant you your request.

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