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Campbeltown, Castlehill, White Hart Hotel

Hotel (19th Century) - (20th Century) (1900)
Campbeltown, Castlehill, White Hart Hotel
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Castlehill in Campbeltown still holds the White Hart Hotel, a building born in the nineteenth century and still standing at the start of the twentieth. It faced the working town, giving sailors, merchants and wandering locals a warm room when the coastal wind cut through their coats. The hotel measured human distance better than any map, marking the place where travel paused and life continued.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Campbeltown, Castlehill, White Hart Hotel as Hotel (19th Century) - (20th Century) (1900). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
The White Hart Hotel on Castlehill in Campbeltown was built in the 19th century and served as a hotel into the 20th century. It is remembered as a notable building on a historically significant promontory linked to the development of Campbeltown as a key port and administrative centre in Kintyre.

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Photo: Harold Ralston · CC BY-SA 2.0