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Fort William, Corpach, General
General View
Site Name Fort William, Corpach, General
Classification General View
Canmore ID 106946
Site Number NN07NE 13
NGR NN 09126 76915
NGR Description Centred NN 09126 76915
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/106946
- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmallie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
Corpach An early settlement, which later achieved recognition as the terminal basin of the Caledonian Canal, Corpach was developed to house canal workers. It later became Fort William's industrial limb, with a short-lived shipbuilding yard and its most prominent landmark: the Pulp and Paper Mill at Annat, W. S. Atkins and Partners, 1963, the result of a government-backed initiative to bring employment to Lochaber in the 1960s. The Mill harnessed the enormous volumes of water discharged from the aluminium smelter, and helped secure the future of the railway.
[It was from Corpach that the corpses of the illustrious were embarked for burial on Iona. Only by crossing water, so the Celts believed, could 'Tir nan Og' (the land of youth) be attained.]
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NN07NE 13 centred 09126 76915
