Brodick Castle
Brodick Castle is a castle situated outside the port of Brodick on the Isle of Arran, an island in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. It was previously a seat of the Dukes of Hamilton, but is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland. The castle ...
. It now houses a series of tourist enterprises including a cheese shop and
Arran Aromatics
Arran may refer to:
Places
* Isle of Arran, Scotland
* Aran Islands, County Galway, Ireland
* Arranmore, County Donegal, Ireland, also known in English as Aran Island
* Arran (Caucasus), or Caucasian Albania, a historical region
* Arran, Saskatc ...
. This was the site of the curiously named
Khartoum
Khartoum or Khartum ( ; ar, الخرطوم, Al-Khurṭūm, din, Kaartuɔ̈m) is the capital of Sudan. With a population of 5,274,321, its metropolitan area is the largest in Sudan. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile, flowing n ...
which was a kind of shanty town. It appears that makeshift towns all over Britain were given exotic names in a kind of ironic way.
Opposite Home Farm is Murchie Sand Pit, which is Arran's largest lowland pond (or loch). The sands and gravels have a variety of uses but the most famous is that of being used for water purification in
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
, a case of selling
coals to Newcastle
Selling, carrying, bringing, or taking coal(s) to Newcastle is an idiom of United Kingdom, British origin describing a pointless action.Isle of Arran
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