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Kames Bay

Photo of Kames Bay, a beach near Millport, North Ayrshire, southern Scotland.

Kames Bay

© Anne Burgess / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

© Anne Burgess / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Kames Bay

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Kames Bay is the sandy town beach at Millport, safe and shallow for paddling and full of rockpools at low tide — a favourite family beach on the Isle of Cumbrae. A short walk from the town, over on the Largs ferry.

More places to visit near Kames Bay

Photo of Great Cumbrae, an island in North Ayrshire, southern Scotland.Highlight

Great Cumbrae

Island near Millport

A ten-mile coast road to cycle, Millport's Victorian seafront and the Cathedral of the Isles, often called Britain's smallest cathedral

0.1 km SE

Photo of Cathedral of the Isles, a church near Millport, North Ayrshire, southern Scotland.Highlight

Cathedral of the Isles

Church near Millport

Butterfield's 1851 cathedral on Great Cumbrae, the smallest cathedral in Britain, seating fewer than 100.

0.6 km NW

Photo of Little Cumbrae, an island in North Ayrshire, southern Scotland.Highlight

Little Cumbrae

Island near Millport

Privately owned island south of Great Cumbrae with an early lighthouse site (1757), a 16th-century castle keep and a seal colony

2.5 km SW

Photo: Largs Promenade and Pencil Monument, a viewpoint near Fairlie, North Ayrshire, southern Scotland.Highlight

Largs Promenade and Pencil Monument

Viewpoint near Fairlie

Clyde-coast seafront walk at Largs ending at the Pencil, a monument to the 1263 Battle of Largs, with Cumbrae views.

5.6 km NE

Photo of the Isle of Bute, an island in Argyll and Bute, the Scottish Highlands and Islands.Highlight

Isle of Bute

Island near Rothesay

Victorian resort of Rothesay with its moated castle, the Gothic Mount Stuart house, sandy Ettrick Bay and the West Island Way

5.7 km W

Photo of Mount Stuart, a garden near Rothesay, Argyll and Bute, the Scottish Highlands and Islands.Highlight

Mount Stuart

Garden near Rothesay

Extravagant Gothic-revival mansion on Bute set in 300 acres of woodland, walled gardens and shore.

7.8 km NW