Portavadie
Sign in to savePortavadie () is a village on the shores of Loch Fyne on the coast of the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, West of Scotland.
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- Locality
- Portavadie
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Argyll and Bute
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- Sport and recreation
- Portavadie Marina
- Loch Lomond and Cowal Way
- National Cycle Route 75
- Transport
- Portavadie Ferry Terminal
- Bus
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- External links
Portavadie () is a village on the shores of Loch Fyne on the coast of the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, West of Scotland.
The Portavadie complex was built in 1975 by the then Scottish Office for the purpose of constructing concrete platforms for extraction of oil from the North Sea. However, the intention was soon overtaken by acceptance that steel platforms were the future for the oil industry in Scotland. Despite suggestions to turn the complex into a holiday village, it lay redundant until in the mid-1980s the enclosed port was used by a local fish farm company.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Portavadie” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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