Toward

Toward; (Scottish Gaelic: Tollard) is a village near Dunoon at the southern tip of the Cowal peninsula with views down the Firth of Clyde, located in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

Toward
  • Scottish Gaelic: Tollard

Toward Lighthouse and Foghorn Building.
Toward
Location within Argyll and Bute
OS grid referenceNS 13400 67500
Council area
  • Argyll and Bute
Lieutenancy area
  • Argyll and Bute
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDUNOON, ARGYLL
Postcode districtPA23
Dialling code01369
UK Parliament
  • Argyll and Bute
Scottish Parliament
  • Argyll and Bute

Architecture

Nearby is Castle Toward, a former country house built close to the ruined Toward Castle. Castle Toward was used as an outdoor education centre. The grounds were also used as a location for the children's BBC TV series, Raven. Sold by Argyll and Bute Council to a private individual in 2016.[1]

Toward Point has one of the eighteen lighthouses built by Robert Stevenson.[2]

Sports

Toward Sailing Club provides racing, cruising and training.[3]

gollark: Wouldn't scanning in all the weird low-level biological stuff be hard?
gollark: You-the-mind will be in hospital, you-the-original-body will be dead.
gollark: Unlike with brains, which will keep trying to work and probably route around broken bits, but still lose functionality in the process.
gollark: Code will probably crash if RAM contents are randomly messed up or something, but you can then reload its data from a backup.
gollark: If the döppelganger is, well, identical, why is it not you?

References

  1. "Castle Toward Sale – Agreed In Principle To Local Businesswoman". Dunoon-observer.com. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  2. "Toward Lighthouse". Secret Scotland. Retrieved 11 November 2007.
  3. "Toward Sailing Club". Retrieved 11 November 2007.


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