Photography: Ross McDowell
At Inveraray, the castle is only part of the story. Campbell power was written across the town, estate and landscape around it.
The Campbells had been major political and landholding figures in western Scotland for centuries. During the eighteenth century, Inveraray was reshaped on a remarkable scale. Castle, planned town, roads, farming, woodland and parkland all formed part of that change. It shows an established Scottish family adapting its influence to a new political and economic world. The story also reaches into the Atlantic world, including research into Campbell connections with slavery and plantation wealth.
Inveraray makes most sense beyond the walls of the castle itself. Town, avenues, woodland, open ground and Loch Fyne belong to the same larger composition, placing the house at the centre of a landscape shaped as carefully as the architecture.
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