Tour Scotland photograph of old quarry workers cottages at Ellenabeich, Easedale, Seil Island, near Oban, Scotland. The main settlement on Seil is the former slate mining village Ellenabeich, where parts of Ring of Bright Water were filmed. The book, Ring of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell, inspired a generation of naturalists and was one of the most popular wildlife books ever written. Gavin Maxwell was the youngest son of Lieutenant Colonel Aymer Maxwell and Lady Mary Percy, fifth daughter of the seventh Duke of Northumberland. His paternal grandfather, Sir Herbert Maxwell, was an archaeologist, politician and natural historian.
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