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Lochaline, General
Village (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Lochaline, General
Classification Village (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Morvern
Canmore ID 107608
Site Number NM64SE 17
NGR NM 6783 4467
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/107608
- Council Highland
- Parish Morvern
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
Lochaline Village founded for dispossessed crofters in c.1830 by the merchant financier John Sinclair, the earlier settlement of Knock having stood higher up the hill. Although for many decades it was little more than a huddle of overcrowded thatched cottages, Lochaline became the principal commercial centre and pierhead for Morvern, and by the 1860s had five grocers, a wheel-wright, two joiners, three builders, three shoemakers, three tailors and a blacksmith.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
