Arrochar
Arrochar; is a village located near the head of Loch Long, on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll as well as Bute, Scottish Highlands. The town is within the Loch Lomond as well as The Trossachs National Forest. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it is ignored by a group of hills called the Arrochar Alps, and also in particular by the distinct rocky summit of the Cobbler. It enjoys great communications as it is at the joint of the A83 and also A814 roadways and is served by Arrochar as well as Tarbet train station. In addition the A82 roadway goes through Tarbet 2 miles to the eastern. For over five centuries this area, the feudal barony of Arrochar, was held by the chiefs of Clan MacFarlane and also before them by their ancestors the barons of Arrochar. The household is Celtic in the male line and also belonging to their Highland homeland of tall peaks and deep lochs simply over the waist of Scotland. The negotiation was a crucial target for Viking raiders who took their watercrafts 2 miles overland to Tarbet to attack the vulnerable inland settlements at Loch Lomond before their defeat in 1263 at the fight of Largs. The western end of Arrochar marks the typical limit of Argyllshire and Dunbartonshire, and also this remained the case under local government reorganisation in 1975. However, in 1996 the boundaries of Argyll as well as Bute and West Dunbartonshire were considerably redrawn, bringing the whole area right into Argyll and Bute.