Harbour View Traditional Cache
Sarah & Steven: Haven't made it to sort this so will archive.
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A magnetic nano with a view of Girvan Harbour. Girvans first cache also. I could hardly believe it when I came here for the day hoping to find one only to discover there were none - so that has now been remedied.
Invergarvane, Grissan or Garvan as Girvan has been called came into existence legally on 6 May 1668. King Charles II granted a charter to Thomas Boyd the Younger of Penkil to form the village of Girvan into the burgh of Barony. The charter granted the right to build a seaport with harbour and fort, all the priviliges, including two weekly markets and two yearly fairs.
Girvan's rich and diverse Culture and Heritage has been shaped by various factors, including it's History, Sea and Land scapes and the influx of people into the area.
There have been people living in the Girvan valley for thousands of years. The oldest officially discovered sign of habitation within Girvan is dated between 3300 - 2500 B.C.that is between 5,300 - 4500 years ago.
As you walk along many of the streets you come across architecturally imposing Private and Public buildings. For example Stumpy Tower, built in 1827, was used as a tolbooth in Reform riots in 1832 and the McKechnie Institute, built in 1888 in a Scottish Baronial style, is now used as an all year round local art and exhibition centre.
For hundreds of years the town's busy harbour has been a centre of attraction for visitors and a base for the fishing industry.
Today the harbour can offer convenient mooring facilities for visiting yachts. From here you can set off for a day's sea angling or a pleasure trip around Ailsa Craig, the plug of an extinct volcano and now a bird sanctuary.
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