Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Port Bannatyne (or Kamesburgh)

Port Bannatyne (or Kamesburgh), vil., North Bute par., Bute island, Firth of Clyde, on Kames Bay, 2½ miles NW. of Rothesay, pop. 651; P.O., T.O.; is a summer resort and a herring fishery sta., and has a steamboat pier, a hotel, and a hydropathic establishment. A tramway extends between the vil. and Rothesay.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: North Bute ScoP       Buteshire ScoCnty
Place names: KAMESBURGH     |     PORT BANNATYNE     |     PORT BANNATYNE OR KAMESBURGH
Place: Port Bannatyne

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