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Walking on Arran

AuthorPaddy Dillon
PublisherCicerone Press
ISBNISBN-10: 1 85284 269 5 (First Edition)
ISBN-13: 978 1 85284 478 3 (Second Edition)
ISBN-13: 978 1 85284 825 5 (Third Edition)
ISBN-13: 978 1 78631 135 1 (Fourth Edition)
Also available in eBook and Kindle formats
Price£16.95
Goat Fell and Cir Mhor rise on either side of The Saddle in the most rugged part of Arran.

Goat Fell and Cir Mhor rise on either side of The Saddle in the most rugged part of Arran.

Holy Isle, in Lamlash Bay, is home to a Buddhist community and can be visited by ferry.

Holy Isle, in Lamlash Bay, is home to a Buddhist community and can be visited by ferry.

Walkers take a break on the steep and rugged ascent of Suide Fhearghas.

Walkers take a break on the steep and rugged ascent of Suide Fhearghas.

This guidebook was requested by Cicerone, covering the whole of an island that has long been referred to as 'Scotland in Miniature'. The idea was to produce a comprehensive guide to a rich variety of routes.

All the route research for the first edition was done in one long trip. Walking routes were checked the length and breadth of Arran, including the rugged mountains in the north, the lower hills in the middle, and the forests and moors to the south. Regular bus services run around and across the island, and these were used exclusively during the route research. In a review for the Mountaineering Council of Scotland, Kevin Howett said, "I have to admit to being impressed by the amount of information contained in this little guide."

The guidebook was completely overhauled for the second edition, with all the original routes being walked and checked, as well as a few new routes adding. The book was re-published in full colour, with the walking routes highlighted on OS Landranger mapping. Again, bus services were used exclusively for travel around and across the island, apart from the ferry service to and from Holy Isle. The guidebook was checked yet again for the third edition, with the addition of an extra route.

The fourth edition of the guidebook has been completely overhauled, and it now contains a full route description of the Arran Coastal Way, which completely encircles the island.

GPX tracks are available for all the routes in this guidebook. They can be downloaded from the Cicerone website.

Walk Contents

Walk 1 Goatfell and Brodick
Walk 2 Brodick Castle Forest Trails
Walk 3 Brodick and the Clauchland Hills
Walk 4 Sithean and Glen Cloy
Walk 5 Sithean and The Ross
Walk 6 Holy Isle from Lamlash
Walk 7 Tighvein and Monamore Glen
Walk 8 Glenashdale and Urie Loch
Walk 9 Glenashdale Falls and Giants' Graves
Walk 10 Eas Mór and Loch Garbad
Walk 11 Kilmory Forest Circuit
Walk 12 The Ross and Cnoc a' Chapuill
Walk 13 Shiskine and Clauchan Glen
Walk 14 Bridgend and Ard Bheinn
Walk 15 The String and Beinn Bhreac
Walk 16 Machrie Moor Stone Circle
Walk 17 Dougarie and Beinn Nuis
Walk 18 Dougarie and Sail Chalmadale
Walk 19 Imachar and Mullach Buidhe
Walk 20 Pirnmill and Mullach Buidhe
Walk 21 Coire-Fhionn Lochan
Walk 22 Catacol and Meall nan Damh
Walk 23 Catacol and Beinn Bhreac
Walk 24 Catacol and Beinn Tarsuinn
Walk 25 Lochranza and Meall Mór
Walk 26 Gleann Easan Biorach
Walk 27 Lochranza and Cock of Arran
Walk 28 Lochranza and Sail an Im
Walk 29 North Glen Sannox Horseshoe
Walk 30 Glen Sannox Horseshoe
Walk 31 Glen Sannox to Glen Rosa
Walk 32 Sannox Goatfell and Corrie
Walk 33 Glen Rosa and Beinn Tarsuinn
Walk 34 Western Glen Rosa
Walk 35 Eastern Glen Rosa

Arran Coastal Way

Walk 36 Brodick to Sannox (forest)
Walk 37 Brodick to Sannox (mountain)
Walk 38 Sannox to Lochranza
Walk 39 Lochranza to Imachar
Walk 40 Imachar to Blackwaterfoot
Walk 41 Blackwaterfoot to Lagg (coastal)
Walk 42 Blackwaterfoot to Lagg (inland)
Walk 43 Lagg to Whiting Bay (coastal)
Walk 44 Lagg to Whiting Bay (inland)
Walk 45 Whiting Bay to Brodick