B836 road
scenic secondary road in Argyll & Bute, Scotland
The B836 is a scenic secondary road in the Argyll and Bute district of Scotland. It runs east-west across the eastern side of the Cowal peninsula from a point on the A815 near the head of the Holy Loch to a point on the A886 between Clachan of Glendaruel and Colintraive.
For most of its route, the B836 is a single-track road with passing places. It is 19.1 kilometres (11.9 mi) in length, but despite this it has no intermediate junctions with any other through roads. The only connections between it and the wider road network are at its end points.
The B836 provides the shortest route between Dunoon and places in south-west Cowal such as Colintraive and Tighnabruaich. The next shortest alternative, via the A815, Strachur and the A886, adds 30 kilometres (19 mi) to the journey. It also forms part of the National Cycle Route 75, which links Edinburgh with Tarbert on the Kintyre peninsula.
History
As originally designated, the B836 continued north along what is now the A886 through Glendaruel to a junction with the B837 (today's B8000) on the shores of Loch Fyne. Several changes followed, but the northern section of the B836 was part of the A886 by the early 1960s.
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