Lochailort
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Lochailort Scottish Gaelic Ceann Loch Ailleart |
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| Coordinates | 56 ° 52 ′ N , 5 ° 39 ′ W | ||
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| Post town | LOCHAILORT | ||
| ZIP code section | PH38 | ||
| prefix | 01687 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | Highland | ||
| British Parliament | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch | ||
Lochailort is a small town at the north end of Loch Ailort in the Scottish Highlands .
history
Medieval vaulters are the oldest evidence of settlement in the area. In 1650 an inn in a settlement at the end of the hole is mentioned in a document. By 1750 the place was big enough to be listed as Kinloch Hoylort on a map . The first section of the Road to the Isles (now A830) built by Thomas Telford in the early 1800s led through the town. In 1828 the retired General Sir Alexander Cameron acquired an 18th century hunting lodge from the Clan Macdonald of Clanranald , which he and his descendants had gradually expanded over the next few decades into the representative Inverailort House (also Inverailort Castle ). In 1872 the - today unused - Catholic Church Our Lady of the Braes was built. It was a location in the film Local Hero . When the railway line was built through the village before the turn of the century, there was a school, a hospital and accommodation for 2000 line workers in the village. Around 1900 the place was renamed from Kinlochailort to Lochailort. In May 1940, Inverailort House and other buildings in the village were requisitioned by the military and a special forces training center was established on the premises. In 1942 the Royal Navy took over the facility and named it HMS Lochailort . After the war, the properties were returned to their original owners. Some of the buildings erected during the war were used for Catholic youth camps in the 1950s before being leased to Unilever in the early 1960s for an aquaculture facility.
traffic
The West Highland Line railway line runs through the village and also has a request stop here. The A861 road ends here at an intersection with the A830.
economy
Salmon farming by Mowi plays an important role economically, and tourism on a small scale.
photos
Our Lady of the Braes
Lochailort Inn
Inverailort House
Lochailort Railway Station
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ entry to polnish in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ↑ a b Kinlochailort. In: ambaile.org.uk. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Entry on Inverailort House in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ↑ Entry on Our Lady of the Braes Church in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ^ Iain Thornber: The Former Military Camp at Lochailort. (PDF; 5.91 MB) A Photographic Record. In: highland.gov.uk. The Highland Council, November 2010, pp. 1–3 , accessed on September 11, 2017 .
- ^ Douglas Fraser: Scottish salmon farming's sea lice 'crisis'. BBC , February 14, 2017, accessed September 11, 2017 .
- ^ Marine Harvest Hatchery & Recirculation Facility in Lochailort. In: cuaquaculture.org. International Copper Association, October 23, 2014, accessed September 11, 2017 .