Mull of Kintyre

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Paul McCartney’s 1977 Wings hit put the Mull of Kintyre on everyone’s lips, but the headland well earns the trip in its own right: the southern tip of the peninsula, its lighthouse looking across the North Channel to the Antrim coast of Ireland, only a dozen miles off. Reach it by a long single-track road beyond Southend, then a steep walk down to the light. Not one to rush, but a memorable spot.

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Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse

Lighthouse near Southend

A remote clifftop light on the Kintyre peninsula's southern tip, reached by a steep road down towards the North Channel and the Antrim coast.

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Kintyre Way

Scotland's Great Trail

A hundred miles down the Kintyre peninsula, from Tarbert on Loch Fyne to Machrihanish on the Atlantic, by way of Campbeltown

5.2 km NE · Argyll and Bute

Campbeltown

Village

Old whisky and fishing town near the foot of Kintyre, once home to dozens of distilleries.

17.6 km NE · Argyll and Bute

Springbank Distillery

Distillery near Campbeltown

Campbeltown's revered family distillery, doing everything from malting to bottling under one roof.

17.7 km NE

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Westport Beach

Beach near Machrihanish

Six-mile golden Atlantic strand backed by Argyll's biggest dunes, running north from Machrihanish.

19.1 km N

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Davaar Island

Island near Campbeltown

Tidal island off Campbeltown with a Stevenson lighthouse and seven sea caves, one holding an 1887 painting of the Crucifixion

20.3 km NE