Locals in the UK’s cheapest seaside town say, although they love their home but it does have one major problem. Campbeltown is a town on the Kintyre Peninsula in Scotland. It has recently been named the cheapest coastal region to buy a home in the UK.
Research by Lloyds Bank found that the average home in the town costs just £103,078, just over a third of the national average, £297,781. It is home to two primary schools, a high school, a police station, a post office, a health centre, a leisure centre, as well as a number of churches, cafes and pubs. Audrey Jopson moved to Campbeltown seven years ago. She told MailOnline: “It’s lovely. It’s peaceful, quiet, and everybody’s friendly.” One shop owner said the town is “so relaxed” and “so beautiful”.
Millie West, 19, who runs secondhand shop Campbeltown Supplies with her family, said that she loved the community feel, saying that you “kind of know everybody”.
But the teenager added that there’s one main problem with Campbeltown: it rains a lot. She added that “you get used to it” quickly. According to the Met Office, the town has 184 days of rain a year, half of the year, with a peak in January.
Campbeltown is one of five areas in Scotland categorised as a distinct malt whisky producing region, and is home to the Campbeltown single malts. At one point, it had over 30 distilleries and proclaimed itself “the whisky capital of the world”.
However, most of the distilleries have gone out of business and today, only three active distilleries remain in Campbeltown: Glen Scotia, Glengyle, and Springbank.
The town also inspired Mull of Kintyre, a 1977 folk song by Paul McCartney’s Wings that topped the UK charts for nine weeks. The Beatle owned High Park Farm just outside the town and there is a memorial garden in the town centre for his wife Linda McCartney.