Strone Point (Loch Striven)

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View from Rothesay to the north. Strone Point is at the end of the protruding hill half-left in the picture. On the right, Loch Striven heads north, on the left the Kyles of Bute run north-west.

Strone Point is a cape in the south of the Scottish Cowal Peninsula and is therefore administratively part of the Argyll and Bute Council Area . The headland marks the entrance to Loch Striven when coming from the south , while the Kyles of Bute continue in a north-westerly direction. Beyond Strone Point, the land rises rapidly and culminates in several hills, of which Beinn Bhreac , located five kilometers to the northwest, is the highest at 507 m.

Strone Point is located in a very sparsely populated region and there are no settlements, only a few houses nearby. However, a single-lane paved road lines the cape so that it is accessible by motor vehicle. A former nearby settlement has since been abandoned. The buildings were shot at and destroyed during target practice during World War II.

As a result of the brisk shipping traffic in the Kyles of Bute, several ship accidents have been recorded around Strone Point in the past centuries. Worth mentioning are a sloop with an unknown name that ran aground there in October 1860 and had to be abandoned, the coal transporter Annabella , which sank after a collision at Strone Point in March 1861, and the Follow Me from Girvan , which also fell after a collision in January 1928 sank.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  2. ↑ Entry on Glaic  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  3. ↑ Entry on Thomas  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  4. ↑ Entry on Annabella  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  5. ↑ Entry on Follow Me  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

Coordinates: 55 ° 53 ′ 52 ″  N , 5 ° 4 ′ 41 ″  W.