Millport
North Ayrshire

A resort town on the east coast of the island of Great Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde, Millport is the only settlement of any size in the isles of Cumbrae. It developed from the former settlements of Kirkton and Kames in the 18th century after the building in 1745 of a barracks known as The Garrison commanding the approaches to the Firth of Clyde. From the 1830s Millport expanded in association with steamer trade bring tourists. The Episcopal Cathedral of Argyll and the Isles, built in 1849 and consecrated in 1876, is said to be the smallest cathedral in Europe. The Keppel Pier (1888), near the Marine Biological Station, was the scene of the official welcome home in July 1904 of the SY Scotia, the research ship of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition.

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