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Ballachulish, Highland. The traveller who comes to this straggling village on the South shore of the West Highland sea-arm of Loch Leven finds himself in scenes of great landscape and seascape beauty. It was as early as 1761 that Stewart of Ballachulish opened a slate quarry on Laroch Farm in the neighbourhood.

One will probably approach Ballachulish for the first time through the splendid Pass of Glencoe, Northwards, and will reach Ballachulish to take the ferry across the mouth of the sea-arm of Loch Leven and on the way to Fort William. This ingeniously worked ferry, swaying to and fro in the fast tide that runs in and out of Loch Leven, is of the greatest practical use to the motorist; it saves him, on his northward journey, a detour of more than 20 miles round the head of the loch.

Apart from the presence of Glencoe, which seems to dominate this whole district, there are splendid views and vistas to be seen from Ballachulish. Above and immediately to the South of the village rises Ben Vair with its two peaks of 3,000 ft. Far to the North rise the mountains of the Mamore Forest. There are the hills of Ardgour to the West; and there is the presence of the sea at this the opening of the Great Glen, which divides Scotland from North East to South West.

The two historical Highland associations that haunt this place are, first, the Massacre of Glencoe (1692), a horrible event in which the Campbells played a notorious part nearby in the reign of William III; and, second, the judicial hanging of James Stewart (James of the Glen), who, as readers of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped will remember, suffered death for the murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure. They will also recall that there was considerable doubt about whether James Stewart was in fact guilty and whether his execution was not an act of political vengeance.

The district of Ballachulish has for a long time been associated with West Highland Episcopalianism, and one of the few Scottish Episcopal Prayer Books printed in the Gaelic language is still preserved at the Episcopal church of Ballachulish.

Nearby towns: Fort William, Killin, Oban

Nearby villages: Appin, Bridge of Orchy, Creagan, Glencoe, Kinlochleven, North Ballachulish, Portnacroish, South Ballachulish

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