Islands of Fleet
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The Islands of Fleet are a group of small islands lying in Fleet Bay, which is part of Wigtown Bay and in turn part of the Solway Firth. The islands are along the eastern shore of the bay and so belong to Kirkcudbrightshire.
There are three main islands.
- Murray's Isles, owned by the National Trust for Scotland, with the small rock "Horse Mark" off it.
- Ardwall Isle (Ard Bhaile - high town), which has a cairn and the remains of a chapel on it, and has the "Old Man of Fleet" off it. The largest of the three, it is approximately 47 acres in extent.[1]
- Barlocco Island, with the "Three Brethren" off it.
Ardwall Isle and Barlocco Isle are two of 43 tidal islands that can be walked to from the mainland of Great Britain.[2]
References
- Location map: 54°48’4"N, 4°13’1"W
- ↑ Rick Livingstone’s Tables of the Islands of Scotland (pdf) Argyll Yacht Charters
- ↑ Peter Caton (2011) No Boat Required - Exploring Tidal Islands. Matador.
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