Arrochar
Arrochar; is a town located near the head of Loch Long, on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands. The village is within the Loch Lomond and also The Trossachs National Forest. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it is overlooked by a team of hills called the Arrochar Alps, as well as in particular by the distinctive rough top of the Cobbler. It enjoys great interactions as it is at the joint of the A83 as well as A814 roadways and is offered by Arrochar as well as Tarbet train station. Furthermore the A82 roadway runs through Tarbet two miles to the east. For over five centuries this location, the feudal barony of Arrochar, was held by the chiefs of Clan MacFarlane and before them by their ancestors the barons of Arrochar. The family is Celtic in the male line and belonging to their Highland homeland of tall optimals as well as deep lochs simply over the waist of Scotland. The settlement was a key target for Viking raiders that took their watercrafts 2 miles overland to Tarbet to strike the unsafe inland negotiations at Loch Lomond prior to their defeat in 1263 at the battle of Largs. The western end of Arrochar marks the typical boundary of Argyllshire and also Dunbartonshire, and this remained the situation under local government reorganisation in 1975. However, in 1996 the boundaries of Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire were significantly redrawn, bringing the entire area into Argyll and Bute.
