Villages & towns in Argyll and ButeArgyll and Bute, Scotland

Picture-postcard conservation village of estate cottages on Loch Lomond's west shore.

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Mull's main town, famous for its curved row of brightly painted harbour-front houses.

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Faded-grand Victorian resort capital of Bute, with a ruined moated castle and ornate pier toilets.

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Georgian planned town of white-harled buildings on Loch Fyne, seat of the Dukes of Argyll.

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Small village at the heart of Kilmartin Glen, ringed by one of Scotland's densest concentrations of prehistoric monuments.

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Bustling West Highland ferry town on a horseshoe bay, gateway to the Inner Hebrides.

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Islay's Georgian capital, laid out around its distinctive round church and namesake distillery.

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Former slate-mining village of white terraced cottages on Seil, backed by quarry cliffs.

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Whitewashed conservation village on Islay's Rinns, home to the island museum and Bruichladdich nearby.

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Fishing village of white cottages at the tip of Islay's Rinns, with seals in the harbour.

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Working fishing harbour on the isthmus between Loch Fyne and West Loch Tarbert, below castle ruins strengthened by Robert the Bruce

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Village at the head of Loch Long beneath the Arrochar Alps and the Cobbler.

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

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Victorian Clyde resort town and main settlement of Cowal, reached by ferry from the mainland.

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Village at the head of Loch Goil, ringed by the peaks of the Argyll Forest Park.

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East Kintyre fishing and holiday village above a fine sandy bay facing Arran.

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Jura's only village, strung along Small Isles Bay beside the island's single distillery.

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Pretty planned village of the Aros peninsula near Mull's north-west coast.

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Crescent of Victorian villas around a sandy bay at Bute's southern end, start of the West Island Way.

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Remote southern Mull settlement at the head of Loch Buie, with a Bronze Age stone circle nearby.

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West Kintyre village behind a vast Atlantic sweep of sand and famous links golf.

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Tiree's main village and old harbour, near the island airport and ferry pier.

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Village near the southern tip of Kintyre, close to the reputed footprints of St Columba.

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Sailing village on the western shore of the Kyles of Bute, famed for its yachting waters.

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Islay's main ferry port and gateway to the peaty south-coast distilleries.

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