Glencoe Series - Part 6 -Ballachulish - Scotland 4K Drive -

The village of Ballachulish in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland, is centred on former slate quarries. The name Ballachulish was more correctly applied to the area now called North Ballachulish, to the north of Loch Leven, but was usurped for the quarry villages at East Laroch and West Laroch, either side of the River Laroch, which were actually within Glencoe and South Ballachulish respectively.

Slate from the East Laroch quarries, established just two years after the infamous Glencoe Massacre of 1692, was used to provide the roofing slate for much of Edinburgh and Glasgow's skyline in the succeeding centuries

The graveyard of the former St John's Episcopal Church has an "exceptional collection of 19th-century finely inscribed and carved" gravestones made from Ballachulish slate

Glencoe Series

Part 1. Tarbet to Tyndrum
Part 2. Tyndrum to Loch Tulla Viewpoint
Part 3, Loch Tulla Viewpoint to Glencoe Mountain Resort
Part 4. Glencoe Mountain Resort
Part 5. Glencoe Mountain Resort to Ballachulish
Part 6, Ballachulish - Drive Around
Part 7. Ballachulish to Oban
Part 8. Oban to Ardrishaig


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