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Great Glen Cattle Ranch
Farmhouse (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Great Glen Cattle Ranch
Classification Farmhouse (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Hill Farm
Canmore ID 280691
Site Number NN17NE 17
NGR NN 15693 78324
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/280691
- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmonivaig
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
The Great Glen Cattle Ranch was established in 1945 by Joseph W. Hobbs, an entrepreneur who made and lost several fortunes in Canada before returning to Britain after the great depression to prosper in the engineering and whisky trades. Hobbs bought Inverlochy Castle and estate in the mid-1940s and set about transforming tracts of barren moorland between Torlundy and Achnabobane into good prairie style cattle grazing - a revolutionary idea in Britain at the time. The spirit of the outback lingers along this section of the A82, where his ranch-style cattle shelters, built of poured concrete and originally painted yellow, are still familiar landmarks.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
