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The area is associated with the history of Clan Campbell, who drove the Lamonts from the area in the fourteenth century. Lochgoilhead used to be an important stop on the route between Glasgow and Inverary , as travellers would arrive by boat and continue by coach to St Catherine's, where they would board a second boat to cross Loch Fyne.
All of them occur in the Scottish Highlands. The Caledonian Pinewood Inventory [ 22 ] breaks these down into 84 smaller sub-units of the main sites. In March 2019, as part of the implementation of the Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 , the Scottish Government listed 84 sites as Caledonian pinewood in regulations, given below.
Loch Shiel (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Seile) is a freshwater loch situated 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Fort William in the Highland council area of Scotland. At 28 kilometres ( 17 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi) long [ 1 ] it is the 4th longest loch in Scotland , and is the longest to have retained a natural outflow without any regulation of its water level, [ 2 ...
Queen Elizabeth Forest Park is a 19,665-hectare (48,590-acre) [1] forest park in the Scottish Highlands which extends from the eastern shores of Loch Lomond to the mountains of Strathyre. The forest park is one of six such parks in Scotland, and was established in 1953, [ 2 ] the year of the coronation of Elizabeth II .
The Highlands (Scots: the Hielands; Scottish Gaelic: a' Ghàidhealtachd [ə ˈɣɛːəl̪ˠt̪ʰəxk], lit. ' the place of the Gaels ') is a historical region of Scotland. [1] [failed verification] Culturally, the Highlands and the Lowlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots language replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands.
Loch Ness is an elongated freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands southwest of Inverness, extending for approximately 37 kilometres (23 miles) and flowing from southwest to northeast. At 56 km 2 (22 sq mi), it is the second-largest Scottish loch by surface area after Loch Lomond , but due to its great depth it is the largest by volume in the ...
Loch Ewe (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Iùbh) is a sea loch in the region of Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland.The shores are inhabited by a traditionally Gàidhlig-speaking people [1] living in or sustained by crofting villages, [2] the most notable of which, situated on the north-eastern shore, is the Aultbea settlement.