Other recreational facilities include a crazy golf course, Millport Bowling Club with a putting green, and two football pitches, one at either end of the town. The town hosts Scotland's biggest independent country music festival, the Millport Country Music Festival in September each year, and a fireworks display is held during September Weekend.Īs well as its numerous beaches, Millport has an 18-hole golf course with views over the Arran hills and the Firth of Clyde. There is a small boat yard at the western end of the town. Millport Bay contains a number of donation based visitor moorings, and is a popular destination for sailors in the summer. Ī significant number of visitors have been attracted to the town by the BBC Radio 4 situation comedy Millport, which was first broadcast from 2000 to 2002. The house is 22 feet long by 11 feet wide at its widest point. Millport has the world's narrowest house, The Wedge, which at its front, measures just 47 inches or 1.19 metres. It has been a feature since at least 1913, as it was that year that Robert Brown was acknowledged by the council for the work. One of the best known landmarks in Millport is the Crocodile Rock on the foreshore. A live webcam of Newton Bay shows visitors live weather on the island. There are wide sandy beaches close to the centre of town, popular for paddling and swimming. Quadricycles can be hired from one of them, opposite the crazy golf.Īs well as numerous tea rooms and cafes, the island has a Chinese restaurant, two chip shops, and several other restaurants, making eating out easy. There are three cycle hire shops, with several hundred bicycles between them. Millport has a limited range of shops including newsagents, butchers, grocers, craft and gift shops, clothes shops, toy shop, fishing tackle shop, outdoor clothing shop, electrical and hardware stores – mainly open at the weekends. It would have been the smallest city in the UK. In 2011, Millport considered applying for city status, on the basis of having a cathedral. It is notable that the houses are being built primarily by private individuals - with the land having been sold off in the form of single plots. Ĭurrently a large development of around 40 family sized homes is underway between Millport Bowling Club and Penmachrie Farm. The Garrison Model Rail Club, located in cabins on the grounds at Garrison House, welcomes visits to its model railway layouts each week. It now houses the Museum of the Cumbraes, a library, council offices, a GP surgery and the Garrison Cafe. After several years of work renovation of the property was completed in 2008 at a total cost of £5 million. Cumbrae Community Development Company, the local development trust, made a successful bid to the National Lottery and other funders to enable the building to be re-constructed for community benefit. The Garrison House was badly damaged after an arson attack in 2001. The local Lady Margaret Hospital was founded in 1900 and bears the name of Lady Margaret Crichton-Stuart, daughter of John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute as a tribute and mark of respect to the eldest daughter of Lord Bute. Various other churches such as the cathedrals in Nin and Zadar in Croatia lay claim to this title. It is the smallest cathedral in Great Britain and is variously described as "the smallest cathedral in Europe", "the second smallest in Europe", or "probably the smallest in Europe". The Cathedral of the Isles of the Scottish Episcopal Church, completed in 1851, seats only 100 people. These large houses still form the backbone of the housing stock. Many of these used rock mined from The Eileans. To the west and east of the old harbour, many fine Victorian and Edwardian villas were built, along with new tenements. The Victorian era was a period of rapid growth, both in terms of population, governance, amenities and property. Several of the streets in Millport are named after crew members of the Revenue cutter Royal George. The Garrison House in the centre of town, constructed in 1745, was formerly the barracks/Captain's mansion, then the home of the Earl of Glasgow, and is now in community ownership (see "Current Developments" below).ĭuring the development of the River Clyde as a main thoroughfare for goods, shipbuilding and smuggling, Millport was a strategic base for Customs and Excise.
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