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West Kilbride

West Kilbride is a sedate village of Glasgow commuters perched above its twin village of Seamill, on the coast. Law Castle was built in the 15th century for Princess Mary, sister of James III, on her marriage to ThomasBoyd of Kilmarnock, who became the Earl of Arran. However, the marriage was later annulled and he had to flee to the Continent where he died in Antwerp. Mary eventually remarried, this time to James Hamilton, first Lord Hamilton, and the Earlship of Arran passed to their son. The castle has been restored and modernised and is now available to rent as a holiday home.

At the hamlet of Portencross, out on a headland beyond Seamill, are the substantial ruins of 14th century Portencross Castle, another Boyd stronghold. Also on the headland is Hunterston Castle (not open to the ublic), ancestral home of Clan Hunter, and Hunterston Nuclear Power Station.