Arrochar
Arrochar; is a village located 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 also The Trossachs National Park. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it is neglected by a group of hills called the Arrochar Alps, and also in particular by the distinctive rocky top of the Cobbler. It takes pleasure in good communications as it goes to the junction of the A83 and A814 roadways and is offered by Arrochar and Tarbet railway station. Additionally the A82 road goes through Tarbet 2 miles to the east. For over 5 centuries this area, the feudal barony of Arrochar, was held by the principals of Clan MacFarlane and prior to them by their forefathers the barons of Arrochar. The family is Celtic in the male line and also belonging to their Highland homeland of tall heights and also deep lochs just over the midsection of Scotland. The settlement was a vital target for Viking raiders that took their boats 2 miles overland to Tarbet to assault the unsafe inland negotiations at Loch Lomond before their defeat in 1263 at the fight of Largs. The western end of Arrochar notes the typical boundary of Argyllshire as well as Dunbartonshire, and this remained the case under city government reorganisation in 1975. Nonetheless, in 1996 the borders of Argyll as well as Bute and West Dunbartonshire were substantially redrawn, bringing the entire area right into Argyll and also Bute.
