Arrochar
Arrochar; is a town situated near the head of Loch Long, on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and also Bute, Scottish Highlands. The town is within the Loch Lomond and 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 top of the Cobbler. It delights in excellent communications as it is at the joint of the A83 and also A814 roadways and is served by Arrochar as well as Tarbet railway station. On top of that the A82 road runs through Tarbet two miles to the east. For over 5 centuries this area, the feudal barony of Arrochar, was held by the chiefs of Clan MacFarlane and 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 tall heights as well as deep lochs simply above the waist of Scotland. The settlement was an essential target for Viking raiders that took their boats 2 miles overland to Tarbet to strike the unprotected inland settlements at Loch Lomond prior to their loss in 1263 at the fight of Largs. The western end of Arrochar marks the traditional boundary of Argyllshire as well as Dunbartonshire, and also this remained the case under city government reorganisation in 1975. Nonetheless, in 1996 the boundaries of Argyll as well as Bute and also West Dunbartonshire were significantly redrawn, bringing the entire location into Argyll as well as Bute.