Arrochar
Arrochar; is a village located near the head of Loch Long, on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and also Bute, Scottish Highlands. The village is within the Loch Lomond and also The Trossachs National Park. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it is overlooked by a team of mountains called the Arrochar Alps, and in particular by the unique rocky summit of the Cobbler. It delights in good communications as it goes to the junction of the A83 and A814 roadways and is offered by Arrochar as well as Tarbet train station. Furthermore the A82 roadway goes through Tarbet 2 miles to the east. For over 5 centuries this location, the feudal barony of Arrochar, was held by the principals of Clan MacFarlane and also prior to them by their forefathers the barons of Arrochar. The family members is Celtic in the male line and also native to their Highland homeland of high optimals and also deep lochs simply over the waistline of Scotland. The negotiation was a key target for Viking raiders that took their watercrafts 2 miles overland to Tarbet to attack the unguarded inland settlements at Loch Lomond prior to their loss in 1263 at the fight of Largs. The western end of Arrochar marks the standard boundary of Argyllshire and Dunbartonshire, and also this remained the case under city government reorganisation in 1975. Nonetheless, in 1996 the limits of Argyll and Bute and also West Dunbartonshire were substantially redrawn, bringing the whole location into Argyll and also Bute.
