Arrochar
Arrochar; is a town 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 ignored by a team of mountains called the Arrochar Alps, and also particularly by the distinctive rough summit of the Cobbler. It takes pleasure in great interactions as it is at the junction of the A83 as well as A814 roads as well as is served by Arrochar and also Tarbet train station. Additionally the A82 roadway goes through Tarbet two miles to the eastern. For over 5 centuries this location, the feudal barony of Arrochar, was held by the principals of Clan MacFarlane as well as before them by their forefathers the barons of Arrochar. The family is Celtic in the male line as well as native to their Highland homeland of tall peaks and also deep lochs simply above the waist of Scotland. The settlement was a crucial target for Viking raiders who took their boats 2 miles overland to Tarbet to assault the unsafe inland settlements at Loch Lomond before their loss in 1263 at the battle of Largs. The western end of Arrochar marks the conventional limit of Argyllshire as well as Dunbartonshire, and this remained the situation under city government reorganisation in 1975. Nonetheless, in 1996 the borders of Argyll as well as Bute and also West Dunbartonshire were considerably redrawn, bringing the whole area into Argyll as well as Bute.
