Achamore Gardens On Visit To Isle Of Gigha Off The West Coast Of Kintyre Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of Achamore Gardens on visit to the Isle of Gigha off the West Coast of Kintyre. The extensive gardens were laid out by Sir James Horlick for Lieutenant Colonel William James Scarlett. The island of Gigha was formerly the property of the Clan McNeill until John Carstairs MacNeill, who sold the island in 1856 to James Williams Scarlett, second son of William Anglin Scarlett, for £49,000. James Scarlett's son, William James Scarlett, a veteran of the Crimean War like his cousin William Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger lived at Achamore. The island remained in the Scarlett family until 1919 when it was sold to a Major John Allen, and subsequently bought in 1937 by Richard and Elaine Hamer, daughter of Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair. During the Second World War it passed to Elaine Hamer's brother, Somerset de Chair, who sold it on to Colonel Sir James Horlick in 1944, who bought the island in order to extend his plant collection, which he had been developing at Titness Park in Berkshire, England. He undertook plantings across some 50 acres of gardens. The estate was again sold in 1973 after Horlick's death to James Landale.

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