You can also hire bikes and cycle round the island taking in the breathtaking views of Arran on the way. |
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The view from the south-west Ayrshire coast, out over Ailsa Craig and towards Arran, is pretty spectacular on its own. |
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Also found was a flake of green Arran pitchstone, thought to be a waste fragment from the manufacture of a tool. |
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Similarly, Arran pitchstone has turned up in Ireland and Orkney, highlighting the complex exchange networks between these places. |
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Unfortunately, I was feeling too ropy to make my weekly journey to Arran and I definitely feel the worse for not having gone. |
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This week she will travel to the Isle of Arran, then to Argyll and finally the glens of Strathspey in a bid to unravel the mystery. |
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He recounted a domiciliary visit when he sailed 20 miles to see a child on Arran. |
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The former maths teacher who grew up on Arran is strong on learning experiences. |
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The Dalradian rocks in Arran were initially folded during the Caledonian orogeny into a recumbent structure known as the Aberfoyle synform. |
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The islanders have long been accustomed to celebrities holidaying on Arran. |
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You can sample Arran cheese, mustard and oatcakes or the island's own whisky produced at the Isle of Arran distillery. |
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Both girls were heading for the Isle of Arran, home of supposedly the best homemade oatcakes in the whole of Britain. |
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Lochranza Youth Hostel is situated on the Isle of Arran in South West Scotland. |
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I spent a couple of years living near the Arran Rapids on Stuart Island, at the mouth of Bute Inlet. |
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Donald A. Stewart was born in November, 1946 in the Island of Arran, Scotland. |
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Arran Bardige smoothes over his T-shirt and baggy jeans, glancing nervously at his phone. |
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Dressed up warmly in an Arran cardigan and Wellington boots, the two-year-old appears to be having a genuinely wonderful time playing in the red and gold autumn leaves. |
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They found the partially clothed body of the man after entering the building, sometimes used as a squat by heroin addicts and the homeless, on Coke Lane off Arran Quay. |
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Back aboard Splendour, Michael served soup and sandwiches as we sailed for Arran. |
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The sky is gun metal, casting a surreal light on to lush green fields, the sea is calm before us and Arran looms up solid and beautiful across the Kilbrannan Sound. |
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From Devon to the Isle of Arran, the naturists have their pick. |
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Kilmory is home to the Torrylinn Creamery, where Arran Dunlop cheese is made, as well as Auchaleffan Farm, which provides free-range meat and poultry. |
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To me, one of the beautiful birding spectacles of the winter happens on a hard cold, brilliant sunshiny day at the Inch Arran. |
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We have another small company, Arran Aromatics, which exports the majority of its products to America. |
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The day we left Arran Point we asked the water taxi skipper to take us one last time through the rapids. |
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From the seventeenth century to the late twentieth century Arran was part of the County of Bute. |
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After the death of Somerled in 1164 Arran and Bute were ruled by his son Angus. |
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Once again, Scotland was in the hands of a regent, James Hamilton, Earl of Arran. |
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I hear the Duke of Hamilton's crofters are a' gaun away, man and mother's son, frae the Isle o' Arran. |
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Gaelic was still spoken widely on Arran at the beginning of the 20th century. |
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Sailing around the west coast of Scotland he halted off the Isle of Arran, and negotiations commenced. |
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After the 1975 reorganisation of local government Arran became part of the district of Cunninghame in Strathclyde Region. |
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Arran is now in the North Ayrshire council area, along with some of the constituent islands of the old County of Bute. |
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At 11:20 p.m. that same day the RCMP received a call that a mini-van had struck a fire hydrant behind the Campbellton Middle School on Arran Street. |
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At last count, I own 15, ranging from a Christopher Kane crochet number to a fluoro Pringle longline design and a hand-knitted, washed-out pink Arran that is currently my favourite. |
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Summer dishes include Newhaven spider crab with mango mayonnaise, braised pork in a summer blanquette of Arran vegetables, and Fife strawberries with a peppered mascarpone mousse and olive-oil ice cream. |
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Daniel Arran Richmond, a 35-year-old from Whittle-le-Woods near Chorley, was out riding with a friend when he was hit from behind by an Audi S3 just after 9.10am on Sunday on Runshaw Lane in Euxton. |
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The setting, a featureless exhibition hall on the edge of Ghent, is surreal but the scenario is as familiar as the snags in a favourite Arran sweater. |
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Apart from the wild sea and landscapes, there are castles, gardens and important prehistoric remains to visit, while a ferry network gives easy access to the nearby islands of Bute, Arran, Islay, Jura and Gigha. |
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The project is a partnership of Shelter Point managing director Jay Oddleifson and distillery designer Andrew Currie, who previously built the Isle of Arran Distillery in Scotland. |
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Company president and founder Arran Stephens wants to remain true to the organic values of social responsibility, environmental sustainability and economic viability. |
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For example, a haulage company in Arran, not the most remote of Scotland's islands, pointed out that many hours are spent on ferries to and from the mainland. |
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The Arran Rapids are like a fast-flowing river that changes directions. |
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The PARE is scheduled at Campbellton Middle School, 80 Arran Street. |
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Similar trackways occur in other areas of the Upper4 Carboniferous rocks in Nova Scotia, and also on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in western Scotland, on the Island of Arran in the Firth of Clyde. |
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The Highlands and Islands lie to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, which runs from Arran to Stonehaven. |
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Mull, Skye and Arran are noted for their mountainous terrain, whilst Tiree, Coll and most of the Shetland group are flat or low lying. |
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The Highland Boundary Fault is a major fault zone that traverses Scotland from Arran and Helensburgh on the west coast to Stonehaven in the east. |
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Arran has been continuously inhabited since the early Neolithic period, and numerous prehistoric remains have been found. |
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The Arran Medical Group provides primary care services and supports the hospital. |
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Local businesses include the Arran Distillery, which was opened in 1995 in Lochranza, and Arran Aromatics, which produces a range of toiletries. |
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The Arran Brewery is a microbrewery founded in March 2000 in Cladach, near Brodick. |
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There is also an online monthly publication called Voice for Arran that relies mainly on articles contributed by community members. |
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The knitting style used to create Aran sweaters is often mistakenly associated with the Isle of Arran rather than the Irish Aran Islands. |
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Over 200 species of bird have been recorded on Arran including black guillemot, eider, peregrine falcon and the golden eagle. |
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In 1981 there were 28 ptarmigan on Arran, but in 2009 it was reported that extensive surveys had been unable to record any. |
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The Kilbrannan Sound is a large arm of the Firth of Clyde, separating the Kintyre Peninsula from the Isle of Arran. |
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In Scotland, Scots is spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, the Northern Isles, Caithness, Arran and Campbeltown. |
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Regent Arran resisted the move, but backed down when Beaton's armed supporters gathered at Linlithgow. |
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On the promise of French military help, and a French dukedom for himself, Arran agreed to the marriage. |
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There is a continuous outcrop along the Highland Boundary Fault from Stonehaven on the North Sea coast to Helensburgh and beyond to Arran. |
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Lord Boyd's son Thomas was made Earl of Arran and married to the king's sister Mary. |
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Further afield Telford designed a road to cross the centre of the Isle of Arran. |
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This lovely candle is from Arran Aromatics and has a lovely balanced fragrance of sweet floral, jasmine and zesty orange. |
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But they need donations of double knitting or Arran yarn, and help from knitters to produce squares to be sewn together into throws and quilts. |
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Arran is therefore not unusual in that the derivation of the name is far from clear. |
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As a result of this Norse influence, many current place names on Arran are of Viking origin. |
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Arran has a particular concentration of early Neolithic Clyde Cairns, a form of Gallery grave. |
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In the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age pitchstone from the Isle of Arran or items made from it were transported around Britain. |
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During the troubled Viking Age, Arran became the property of the Norwegian crown, until formally absorbed by the kingdom of Scotland in the 13th century. |
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The earliest surviving example is at the Hamilton palace of Kinneil, West Lothian, decorated in the 1550s for the then regent the James Hamilton, Earl of Arran. |
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As progress at the siege was slow, James sent Hans the royal gunner in Robert Barton's ship and then the Earl of Arran with provisions and more artillery. |
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Margaret's alliance with Arran inevitably alienated other noble houses. |
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The Isle of Arran has a rich diversity of plant life, with around 50 species of wild flower including marsh marigold, wood anemone, bluebells and yellow iris. |
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For some statistical purposes Arran is within the registration county of Ayrshire and for ceremonial purposes within the lieutenancy area of Ayrshire and Arran. |
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Darnley shared a more recent Stewart lineage with the Hamilton family as a descendant of Mary Stewart, Countess of Arran, a daughter of James II of Scotland. |
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The Survey of the Gaelic Dialects of Scotland, which collected Gaelic dialect data in Scotland between 1950 and 1963 also interviewed 5 native speakers of Arran Gaelic. |
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Arran was also part of the medieval Bishopric of Sodor and Man. |
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For a short time during the reign of King James V in the 16th century the Isle of Arran was under the regency of Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell. |
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The island has three endemic species of tree, the Arran whitebeams. |
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Named the 'String road', this route traverses bleak and difficult terrain to allow traffic to cross between east and west Arran avoiding the circuitous coastal route. |
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The Scottish Regent Lord Arran agreed to the marriage in the Treaty of Greenwich on 1 July 1543, but it was rejected by the Parliament of Scotland on 11 December. |
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The cascrom, or foot-plough, was at this time unknown in Arran. |
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His name appears in the company of the Bishop of Argyll, the vicar of Arran, a Kintyre clerk, his father, and a host of Gaelic notaries from Carrick. |
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English agents managed the safe return of Earl of Arran, the eldest son and heir of Chatelherault, allowing him to accept the leadership of the Lords. |
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