The town of Rothesay is the principal town on the Isle of Bute, in the county of Bute, Scotland. It features a late medieval castle surrounded by a moat and can be reached by ferry from Wemyss Bay which offers an onward rail link to Glasgow.
The town was long a popular destination for Glaswegians going "doon the watter" (lit: down the water, where the 'water' in question is the Firth of Clyde) and its wooden pier was once much busier with steamer traffic than it is today. The town also had an electric tramway which stretched across the island to one of its largest beaches. However, this closed in the mid 1930s.
Rothesay Castle stands in a prominent position in the centre of the town of Rothesay on the Isle of Bute.
The Norwegian attacks had shown that Rothesay Castle was not the impregnable fortress its builders had hoped, and in the last decades of the 1200s it was significantly strengthened with the addition of four circular towers projecting from the walls and a gatehouse on the northern side of the castle.
In 1371 Robert II succeeded to the Scottish Crown, and with him the Hereditary High Stewards of Scotland became the Kings of Scotland: commencing the three hundred year reign of the House of Stewart.
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