Walk: Brodick bucket list

📌 Brodick, Isle of Arran
★★★

Brodick is a village with a list of attractions as long as a giraffe’s neck, but they spread over quite a wide area, separated by main roads, rivers and fields. What if there was a walk route joining them all together? Look no further – this varied and popular circuit is only four miles in length, but could be stretched to fill a whole day if you paid a visit to all the other attractions it passes. Highlights include the island’s main heritage museum, a long sandy beach, the shopping at Home Farm, a brewery, tranquil pond, country park, standing stones… and Brodick itself, of course. Brodick Castle, owned by the National Trust for Scotland, is just off-route, but can be reached by a short, signposted detour from Cladach.

📷 Chronological photo guide

🌍 Location

📌 Start / finish at south end of Brodick beach, Main Street (A841), Brodick village centre, Isle of Arran

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NS 015361

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.578267,-5.150914

🚌 Bus to Brodick | 🚢 Ferry to Brodick (0.5 mi)

🚗 Car park

📝 Key info

▶ 6 km / 4 mi | ▲ 40 m | ⌛ 1.5-2 hr

Features: 🏠 Brodick ★★; 🏖️ Brodick Bay ★★; 🏰 Brodick Castle, Garden & Country Park; ❔ various standing stones;🏛️ Arran Heritage Museum

⬤ Easy | Clear paths, sandy beach, tracks, minor roads & pavements.

➡️ Anticlockwise lollipop walk: start & Brodick – Brodick Bay – Cladach – Brodick Castle Country Park (optional detour to castle) – cross Cnocan Burn to west – standing stones north of Mossend – north bank of unnamed lochan – Home Farm shops – Arran Heritage Museum – standing stone to east – rejoin outward route – start

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🥾 On our last visit

Wildlife: Mute swans, grey herons, mallards, goosanders, seagulls, diving gannets. Sheep & lambs.

Weather: Mostly cloudy with rain being held back by hills to the west. Sunnier over Brodick Bay. Temperature in high teens.

July 2022