Loch Fyne: Ardkinglas and the Oyster Bar
Argyll and The Isles, Scotland
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Loch Fyne: Ardkinglas and the Oyster Bar
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At the head of Loch Fyne, the Ardkinglas woodland garden, laid out from the 18th century with an arboretum planted in the 1860s and 1870s, holds some of the tallest conifers in Britain, and in 1979 the estate's owner, Johnny Noble, and the fish farmer Andy Lane started farming oysters in the loch — the business that became Loch Fyne Oysters. The loch itself is the longest sea loch in Scotland and the road runs down it to Inveraray.
Required Activities
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of 3
Walk the Ardkinglas Woodland Garden near Cairndow, open year-round, beside Ardkinglas House, designed by Sir Robert Lorimer for Sir Andrew Noble and built in 1906–1908
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of 3
Eat oysters at Loch Fyne Oysters at Cairndow, the business started in the loch in 1979
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of 3
Find the Grand Fir, one of the tallest trees in Britain, in the garden
Walk the Ardkinglas Woodland Garden near Cairndow, open year-round, beside Ardkinglas House, designed by Sir Robert Lorimer for Sir Andrew Noble and built in 1906–1908
Eat oysters at Loch Fyne Oysters at Cairndow, the business started in the loch in 1979
Find the Grand Fir, one of the tallest trees in Britain, in the garden
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