Castle Toward ( gd, Caisteal an Toll Àird) is a nineteenth-century
country house
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on the southern tip of the
Cowal
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The northern part of the peninsula is covered by the Argyll Forest Park managed by Forestry and Land Scotland. The Arrochar ...
peninsula, overlooking
Rothesay
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Bay in
Argyll and Bute
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on the west-coast of
Scotland
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.
Built in 1820 by Glasgow merchant
Kirkman Finlay, it replaced the late medieval Toward Castle, formerly the ancestral home of the
Clan Lamont
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. It was greatly extended in the early 20th century, and in the Second World War it served as HMS ''Brontosaurus''. After the war it was sold to
Glasgow Corporation
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As one of ...
and was used as an
outdoor education
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