Sannox ( gd, Sannaig) is a village on the
Isle of Arran,
Scotland
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. The village is within the parish of Kilbride. The name comes from the name the
Viking
Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden),
who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...
s gave to the area, ''Sandvik'', meaning the Sandy Bay.
History
Within North Glen Sannox it is possible to find an
Iron Age
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fort and the remains of a village, abandoned in 1829 as part of the process of the
Highland clearances. Most of the inhabitants of this village emigrated to
Canada
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where they built a replica of the church that was constructed in Sannox in 1822. The replica church in Inverness, Quebec, is no longer there (since the 1950s) and only the cemetery remains. Remains of the houses and runrigs - a type of farming common in western Scotland at the time - are visible throughout North Glen Sannox.
Mining was a source of employment in the area, when in 1840 a mine was opened in Glen Sannox. However operations only lasted around two decades. Operations ended when in 1862 the
11th Duke of Hamilton closed the mine, claiming that it spoiled the local area. However, the mine was reopened after the close of the
First World War
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, and a railway and pier were built to transport the
barytes that was mined there.
The source of barytes ran out in 1938 and the mine closed. The railway and pier to which it ran were removed in the 1940s, though the remains of the latter can still be seen on Sannox beach.
A small boat yard used to operate at the village jetty.
The cemetery in Glen Sannox used to house a small chapel. It is the burial site of Edwin Muir, who was murdered on Goatfell in 1889 by John Laurie.
Geography
Sannox sits on the east coast of the Isle of Arran, with a stunning backdrop of scenery in the shape of
Glen Sannox
A number of motor vessels have been named ''Glen Sannox'', including
*, a car and passenger ferry serving Clyde routes between 1957 and 1989
*, a dual-fuel ferry under construction for the Arran route
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. To the north lies North Glen Sannox. The
A841 road passes through to
Lochranza, on a stretch of road known locally as the Boguille.
Community
Sannox is the location of the Corrie Golf Club,
a nine-hole golf course, named after the locally twinned village of
Corrie. It is also the location of
Sannox Cricket Club.
References
External links
Canmore - Sannox Bay, Standing Stone site recordCanmore - Arran, Sannox Congregational Church site record
Villages in the Isle of Arran
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