{"id":47191,"date":"2015-03-06T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-inveraray-argyll\/"},"modified":"2017-03-08T19:11:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T12:11:31","slug":"lets-move-to-inveraray-argyll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-inveraray-argyll\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to: Inveraray, Argyll"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nInveraray was planned into being in the mid-18th century by the Duke of Argyll to kill three birds with one stoneWhat\u2019s going for it? The phrase \u201cplanned town\u201d 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 \u201cpretty\u201d doesn\u2019t immediately spring to mind. But towns \u2013 even pretty towns \u2013 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\u2019s 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…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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