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Laggan (Gaelic: Lagan [1]) is a village in Badenoch, in the Highland region of Scotland. [2] It is beside the River Spey, about 10 km west of Newtonmore. The A86 road passes through the village and crosses the river on a nearby bridge. It is notable as being the region in Badenoch where the Scottish Gaelic language survived the longest. [1]
An estimated 4500–5000 cattle were in Badenoch in the 1770s. [11] In the mid-1750s, the first flood banks on the River Spey in Badenoch were built at Pitmain, [12] just southwest of the modern day edge of Kingussie. Famine struck Badenoch in the early 1770s and 1780s, the later was widespread across Scotland and even Europe.
The scheme for classifying buildings in Scotland is: Category A: "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic; or fine, little-altered examples of some particular period, style or building type."
Laggan (Lagan, Gaelic for 'little hollow') may refer to: Scotland. Laggan, Badenoch; Laggan, Great Glen (consisting of North Laggan and South Laggan) Laggan, Islay;
The Highland Folk Museum is a museum and an open-air visitor attraction in Newtonmore in Badenoch and Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom. It is owned by the Highland Council and administered by High Life Highland. It was founded in 1935 by Dr Isabel Frances Grant (1887–1983).
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The single name Lochan na h-Earba is applied to two lochs to the south of Loch Laggan in Highland, Scotland, close to the historic boundary between Lochaber and Badenoch.It is thought that the two lochs once formed a single loch, but became separated by the build up alluvial deposits from the Moy Burn (Scottish Gaelic: Allt a' Mhaigh), which now joins the short watercourse that connects the ...