Property News · March 6, 2015

Let’s move to: Inveraray, Argyll


Inveraray was planned into being in the mid-18th century by the Duke of Argyll to kill three birds with one stoneWhat’s going for it? The phrase “planned town” probably conjures up Stevenage. Or Crawley. Maybe Milton Keynes. Places not without their merits, but generally with a dusting of post-war ennui. The word “pretty” doesn’t immediately spring to mind. But towns – even pretty towns – have been planned for millennia. Inveraray was planned into being in the mid-18th century by the Duke of Argyll to kill three birds with one stone: to art-direct his estate’s hoi polloi and herring fishers into a more picturesque arrangement; and one a tad further away from his front door; finally, to improve the infrastructure out here in the sticks with grid-iron streets, to better hurry troops to quash any more clan uprisings.The duke had style, though, employing the Adam brothers, and Robert Mylne, to create a heavenly white mirage against the loch. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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