1200 with additions added in 16th centuries onwards
Built by
John Huntar (4th Laird)
Hunterston Castle, West Kilbride, North Ayrshire, Scotland is the historic home of the lairds of Hunterston and Chiefs of Clan Hunter. The keep dates from the late 12th, or early 13th centuries, while the attached manor house is of the 18th century. The estate was granted to the Hunters by David I of Scotland in the 12th century, and the heads of the clan have lived on the estate for the following 900 years. The castle is a Category A listed building.
HunterstonCastle, West Kilbride, North Ayrshire, Scotland is the historic home of the lairds of Hunterston and Chiefs of Clan Hunter. The keep dates...
Group in 2003. It lies south of Fairlie, adjacent to Hunterston estate, site of HunterstonCastle, and its jetty projects out approximately 1 mile (1.6 km)...
of their stock". The seat of the chief of Clan Hunter has been at HunterstonCastle for over 800 years. William Huntar of, the 10th laird was granted...
designs and features. A good representative of this sort of work is HunterstonCastle in Ayrshire (1912). The First World War restricted the demand for...
out of it. It is marked on Andrew Armstrongs 1775 map of Ayrshire. Hunterstoncastle near West Kilbride had a dule known as the 'hanging tree' or 'resting...
of HunterstonCastle. In 1969 the Lyon Court officially recognised Neil Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick (b. 1926) in the name of the Hunter of Hunterston as being...
military developments along the shoreline, including the Hunterston B nuclear power station and Hunterston deepwater terminal. At the same time, shipbuilding...
Ardrossan. Ardrossan is located near two nuclear power stations: Hunterston A, 360 MW and Hunterston B, 1215 MW. Ardrossan Wind Farm, a 24 MW wind farm that opened...
Dogtooth spar) Concorde G-BOAA (Alpha Alpha) Dolly the sheep Galloway Hoard Hunterston Brooch Lewis chessmen One of the three skins left of the Mauritius blue...
under the banner of Montrose. She falls in love with Richard Hunter of Hunterston who returns from abroad a rich man; however, all of his wealth is lost...
common on the main island of Little Cumbrae at the time. The Hunters of Hunterston were for centuries the Hereditary Foresters of the island and King's lands...
It was cleared in 1979, and the stone used to build the terminal at Hunterston, with the site being landscaped as Almswall Park. The Main Street of Kilwinning...
construction of Hunterston A nuclear power station, a siding was provided for flask trains, which was subsequently used for Hunterston B. In the mid 1990s...
village of Fairlie and the deep water coal terminal and power station at Hunterston can be seen. Millport, the island's only town, is spread around a bay...
about two kilometres (1+1⁄4 miles) south of Hunterston B nuclear power station, it is noted for Portencross Castle. It has two harbours and a pier. The "Old...
rest are owned by the British Museum) Celtic brooches, including the Hunterston Brooch Torrs Pony-cap and Horns Pictish stones, such as the Hilton of...
on 31 March 1990, the day before the nuclear generation assets (Hunterston A, Hunterston B and Torness Power Stations) were vested with Scottish Nuclear...
and recreation hall; even the slag heap has been removed to build the Hunterston Deep Water terminal. Usually the Earls left industrial relations to employees...
1st Laird of Torwoodlee Sir Patrick Houston John Hunter 14th Laird of Hunterston William Keith Sir Alexander Lauder of Blyth, Provost of Edinburgh David...
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