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Isle of Arran

Brodick sands and Corrie's white cottages.

Arran's villages sit along the one road that runs right round the island. At Brodick, the ferry comes in beside a wide sweep of golden sand, with Goat Fell rising above the far end and the Fisherman's Walk following the shore towards the castle woods. Five miles north, Corrie is a row of white cottages between the sea and the steep slopes, with a sandstone quay and a little harbour. The painter Joan Eardley drew the villagers and painted the shore here in the 1940s. Walk Brodick Bay in your first or last hour on the island, while you wait for the ferry.

Village of the day16 hours ago

Brodick Bay.

A wide sweep of golden sand beside the Brodick ferry, with Goat Fell above it and the Fisherman's Walk along the shore to Cladach.

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From our guide12 hours ago

Corrie.

Corrie runs along the coast road five miles north of Brodick, a line of white cottages squeezed between the sea and the steep slopes of Goat Fell. A little stone quay still shelters boats in its harbour. In the 1940s the painter Joan Eardley came here with her friend Margot Sandeman, and the two shared a tiny cottage studio. Eardley painted the shore and drew the villagers, long before her years at Catterline. Stop for a stroll along the harbour, then carry on up the road for seafood at Mara or a paddle at Sannox.

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From the magazine7 hours ago

Lochranza, the village at the north end of the Isle of Arran, could only be reached by water until 1843.

Today a pass road climbs over to it from Brodick, a road the magazine writer's four-year-old son said was like Snakes and Ladders. The village is tucked where Arran folds into the Kilbrannan Sound, sheltered by Glen Easan and Glen Chalmadale, with the photogenic remains of a 13th-century castle on a peninsula in the loch. It is famous as the spot where the 18th-century geologist James Hutton proved that the earth was billions, not thousands, of years old. Keep an eye on the grass by the village golf course as you pass, because red deer may be grazing there.

Read the full story in Issue 8

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