Helensburgh and West Dunbartonshire Ramblers

Great Cumbrae

Date: 28th August 2021

Leader: Trish Schooling

Grade: C+

Number on walk: 18

Click here for GPX track of the walk

 

Waiting for the ferry at Largs before our walk

 

The Millport Mineral Well

This well, or more accurately spring, was officially opened in 1928 by the wife of Lord Inverclyde

 

Trig point, indicator panel and The Glaid Stone at the highest point on Great Cumbrae (127m)

The Glaid Stone is a large glacial erratic of red sandstone deposited by a glacier during the last ice-age

 

Group photograph by the trig point

 

Millport Cathedral – also called The Cathedral of the Isles

The smallest working cathedral in Britain. Building work was completed in 1851 and the building consecrated in 1876

 

Strolling back to the ferry at the end of the day

 

Waiting for the ferry at Cumbrae Slip