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Place of the day20 hours ago

Jura Boat Tours.

See beautiful Jura from the water with a bespoke boat tour around the coast

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Jura this autumn, in our photographs.

Six places on Jura, each as we found it.

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Quiz19 hours ago

The name of Jura, the island across the sound from Islay, comes from the Norse for what?

Did you know18 hours ago

An old prophecy on the Isle of Jura said the last of the Campbells, who founded its distillery, would leave penniless and one-eyed, and in 1938 it came true.

Members of Clan Campbell founded the Jura Distillery in Craighouse in 1810, and the family held a strong influence over the island and its land up until the 1930s. The prophecy said the last of them would leave with nothing, and blind in one eye. In 1938 the last Campbell, Charles, left Jura with no money, having lost the sight of one eye to a war injury, just as had been predicted. The distillery, closed by then, was brought back by a group of islanders and opened again in 1963, and it later named a peaty, salty single malt Prophecy after the old island tale.

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Places to visit17 hours ago

Camus an Staca.

A great prehistoric standing stone, nearly twelve feet high, on a slope above the Sound of Jura near Craighouse.

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From Issue 4 of Hidden Scotland magazineIssue 416 hours ago

JURA: Traveller’s Tales

Three days on Jura, an island with one road, thousands of red deer and very few people, meeting its distillers, crafters and artists and spotting sea eagles and an otter.

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Places to visit15 hours ago

Loch Tarbert.

The long sea loch that almost cuts Jura in two, reaching into the island's wild west coast.

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Quiz14 hours ago

Which novel did George Orwell write at Barnhill, his retreat on the island of Jura?

From our archive13 hours ago

Camella Crafts, Isle of Jura.

Elaine Campbell's craft shop at the Pier Garage in Craighouse, selling what she makes from antler, whisky barrels and sea pottery.

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Places to visit12 hours ago

Corran Sands.

A long sweep of pale sand at the head of Small Isles Bay near Craighouse, sheltered, shallow and under the Paps of Jura.

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Did you know11 hours ago

The Corryvreckan, between Jura and Scarba, is said to be the third largest whirlpool in the world, and its roar can be heard 16 km away.

As the flood tide pours into the narrow gulf it speeds up to 8.5 knots, about 16 km an hour, and swirls around a pyramid-shaped pinnacle of rock that rises to within 29 metres of the surface. In April 1947 the writer George Orwell moved to Jura to work on the novel that became Nineteen Eighty-Four. That August, coming back from a boat trip with his young son and two companions, he misread the tides and was carried close to the whirlpool. The party reached a rocky outcrop and were rescued when passing lobstermen spotted the fire they had lit to keep warm.

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