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Arduaine Garden

Arduaine Garden is a place of peace perched on the windswept coast of Argyll in the Western Highlands of Scotland.

James Arthur Campbell bought the land that became Arduaine in the mid-1880s. He planted various trees and some 220 different rhododendrons. It was passed to his son and then his grandson until 1971, when it was bought by nurserymen, Edmund and Harry Wright, who spent the next 21 years restoring and replanting. They gave the garden to The National Trust for Scotland in the spring of 1992.

Nowadays you can explore the gardens many ponds and borders as well as the Woodland Garden and Cliff Path. There are several viewpoints with fantastic views.

The name Arduaine is a Gaelic one, meaning green point or promontory.

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Created: 27  November  2016  Edited: 29  November  2023

Arduaine Garden

Local History around Arduaine Garden

There are some historic monuments around including:

Ardanstur,dun 150m WNW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun SM3796Ormaig,cupmarked rocks 320m S of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cupmarks or cup-and-ring marks and similar rock art SM5488Shuna Cottage,cairn 220m ENE of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM4207Kintraw,cairns and standing stone 200m SSE of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM210Creag Aoil, fort 670m WSW of Tulloch Beag Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM3786Ballycastle,dun,Luing Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun SM2440Arduaine, dun 65m NW of The Old Cottage Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun SM3847Ballachuan, chapel and burial ground 255m ESE of Braefoot Ecclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard SM4143Shuna Cottage,cairn 195m ENE of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM4205Ardanstur, dun 345m W of Top Ardanstur Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun SM3794Dun Fadaidh Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun SM4180Clach an t'Sagairt,chambered cairn,Ardfern Prehistoric ritual and funerary: chambered cairn SM3376Ardanstur,fort 350m S of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM3791Shuna Cottage,cairn 220m NW of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM4206Ardanstur,fort 700m S of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM3792Rubh an Tighe Loisgte,dun,Loch Melfort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun SM3785Kintraw,artificial hillside platform Prehistoric ritual and funerary: stone setting SM3690Barbreck's Well Secular: well SM3398Shuna Point,cairn 350m NE of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM4208.

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