Arrochar
Arrochar; is a town located near the head of Loch Long, on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands. The town is within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it is ignored by a group of mountains called the Arrochar Alps, and also specifically by the unique rocky summit of the Cobbler. It enjoys excellent communications as it goes to the junction of the A83 and A814 roads and is offered by Arrochar and Tarbet railway station. Additionally 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 principals of Clan MacFarlane as well as before them by their ancestors the barons of Arrochar. The family is Celtic in the male line and also native to their Highland homeland of high optimals and deep lochs simply over the waistline of Scotland. The settlement was a vital target for Viking raiders that took their watercrafts 2 miles overland to Tarbet to assault 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 standard border of Argyllshire and also Dunbartonshire, as well as this stayed the case under city government reorganisation in 1975. Nonetheless, in 1996 the borders of Argyll and Bute as well as West Dunbartonshire were significantly redrawn, bringing the whole location into Argyll and also Bute.
