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	Glen Orchy
		GLEN ORCHY is the beautiful valley, twelve miles long, in which the River Orchy runs between Bridge of Orchy and Dalmally.
		The Glen gives its name to the local church, Glenorchy Kirk, to the Parish, to the shinty team, to the curling club, and of course to the previous landowners, the Lairds of Glenurquhay.
		Almost the whole Glen is planted with conifers, but it is still a peaceful, beautiful spot, which attracts many visitors, campers, anglers and walkers, as well as many artists.
	www.loch-awe.com /history/glenorchy.htm (180 words)

	ARGYLLSHIRE - LoveToKnow Article on ARGYLLSHIRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Orchy flows from Loch illa through Glen Orchy, and falls into the north-eastern end Loch Awe; and the Awe drains the loch at its north-western tremity, discharging into Loch Etive.
		In veral of the glens, as Glen Aray, small falls may be seen, hanced in beauty when the rivers are in flood.
		The slates and phyllites referred to the, lowest group cur along the shore at Dunoon, and are followed by the Beinn heula grits and albite schists, forming nearly all the highest ground Cowall between Loch Fyne and the Firth of Clyde and the greater irt of Kintyre.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AR/ARGYLLSHIRE.htm (2136 words)

	Glen Etive Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		The Glen Etive road meanders for some 14 miles to the head of Loch Etive, where it ends in a turning circle near a ruined pier.
		Glen Etive is a magnet for climbers and hillwalkers, who come here especially to climb the mountains around Ben Starav to the south east and the Glen Coe mountains to the north and west.
		Suddenly the views before you open out across the lower glen and you are presented with the sight of the southern end of the Buachaille Etive Mor ridge, with the Lairig Gartain to its west.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /glenetive/glenetive (726 words)

	Glen Orchy House, 20 Knab Road, Lerwick presented by A1 Tourism
		Glen Orchy House, open for business all year, where comfort, home cooking and a warm welcome awaits.
		Built in 1904 by the Episcopalian church as a convent, Glen Orchy House was known as the House of Charity until the 1920's when it became the Rectory to St Magnus Church here in Lerwick.
		Situated, as Glen Orchy is, on the south side of Lerwick overlooking the Knab and 9 hole golf course, free to the public, it is ideal for birdwatchers, photographers, artists and walkers alike yet still very close to the town centre for business or browsing.
	www.a1tourism.com /uk/glenorch.html (336 words)

	Beinn Mhanach
		Beinn Mhanach ("monk hill", 954m) is the higher of the twin summits of the hill at the head of Auch Gleann (sometimes glimpsed from trains on the West Highland Railway as it sweeps across the glen on an impressive viaduct).
		This route is a loop walk from Bridge of Orchy encircling Beinn Dorain using the West Highland Way for part of the journey.
		Up ahead is the grand horseshoe of the railway line as it sweeps around the glen and the first view of Beinn Mhanach.
	www.geocities.com /Yosemite/2411/mhanach.html (960 words)

	Encyclopedia: Glen Orchy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Glen Orchy is a long valley in Argyll in Scotland.
		It runs south-westerly from the Bridge of Orchy (Grid reference: NN298392 (http://www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk/oscoor_a.htm?NN298392_region:GB_scale:25000)) to Inverlochy (Grid reference: NN194277 (http://www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk/oscoor_a.htm?NN194277_region:GB_scale:25000)) following the River Orchy.
		This article is about the map grid references in the UK.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Glen-Orchy (202 words)

	Clan MacGregor
		Originally the Glen Orchy area was inhabited by Clan MacGregor but as they held the land "under god" and had no charter from the King, confirming it, Lord Duncan Campbell of Lochawe, Lord of Oirer Gaidheal (Argyll) managed to claim and receive the land by royal charter.
		Glen Gyle at the head of Loch Kathrine lying between the northern cattle lands and the southern rich farming soil was covered by trails of the cattle drovers on their way either to the cattle market at Crieff or to the better grazing grounds of the south.
		Red John of the Battles offered them a house in Glen Dochart and Rob Roy began his campaign of lifting cattle, stealing rents previously received from the poor and returning the money to them and driving away factors despatched to evict people having come into arrears with their rents.
	members.fortunecity.com /gaulois/macgregor.html (1212 words)

	Image Bank - Scottish Mountains
		This transect of a typical glaciated valley shows the corrie on the eastern slope of Ben Lui, steep sided valley and mounds typical of moranines and drumlins on the valley floor.
		The broad valley of Glen Orchy lies in the middle distance.
		The foregorund is bare rock or rough grazing and the larger bolder may be an erratic or the remants of an earlier rockfall from higher up the slopes.
	www.fife-education.org.uk /ImageBank/ScotMountains.htm (607 words)

	Scotland's Terrier: Bridge To A Breed
		Early rendering of Dundee, the seminal genetic pillar of the modern Scottish Terrier, whose dam came from the Glen of Orchy.
		Of special interest was finding Glen Orchy and the Bridge of Orchy, for it was in the vicinity of the bridge that Mackie bought an important breeding pair of “Scotch Terriers” from a deer forester named, McGregor.
		Today a refurbished Glen Orchy Hotel stands on the roadside near the stone bridge-- old enough to have been in use when Mackie made his trek through Argyll by pony cart in the 1870s.
	www.tartanscottie.com /Scottish_Terrier_bridge_to_a_breed.htm (694 words)

	Kinship Landholding & Crime - Clan Gregor 1583 - 1611, Possession of Land by Clan Gregor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cailean liath and his son and successor from 1583 as laird of Glen Orchy, Donnchadh dubh used bonds of manrent to establish dependents, but also had an impressive breeding programme intended to rectify their lack of kindred and perhaps came closer to the ideal model of clanship than did Clan Gregor.
		Glen Lednock was one of the only sites of MacGregor settlement where a heritable crown tenancy had been obtained.
		century were the subject of bitter dispute with Cailean liath of Glen Orchy who purchased the superiority from the Earl of Argyll in 1554, [96] and refused to infeft the young chief, Griogar ruadh (2111112) in 1562.
	www.glendiscovery.com /dissertation-chap2.htm (4989 words)

	Hillwalking Areas - The Southern Highlands
		As a viewpoint, the peaks of the Orchy group bridge the Central and Southern Highlands, with the Glen Nevis peaks including Ben Nevis visible to the north, Ben Alder further east, and the remaining high hills of the Southern Highlands visible to all other compass points.
		Glen Lyon is some 40km long, draining eastwards to the Tay, and must be one of Scotland's most beautiful glens.
		One peak, Schiehallion (1083m), the highest of the group, has a place in scientific history, as it was on its slopes that an attempt was made to measure the mass of the earth using the displacement of a pendulum, by the then Astronomer-Royal, Maskelyne.
	www.communicata.co.uk /smc/hsouth.htm (1328 words)

	Tour Scotland, Glen Orchy.
		The confluence of these waters marks the head of Glen Orchy which is itself the largest of three ‘fingers’ which probe inland from Dalmally at the head of Loch Awe.
		The northern ‘finger’ is Glen Strae on whose western flanks tower great hills like Beinn Eunaich (3,242 feet), Beinn Lurachan (2,348 feet) and, greatest of all, Ben Cruachan (3,689 feet).
		Glen Orchy itself, between these northern and southern ‘fingers’, is separated from them by Beinn Udla (2,529 feet) and Beinn Bhreac-liath (2,653 feet) to the south and Beinn Donachain (2,217 feet) and Beinn Mhic-Mhonaidh (2,602 feet) to the north.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /glen-orchy.htm (412 words)

	Loch Awe - The Virtual Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The main feeder river to the loch is the River Orchy, which is born in the spectacular landscape around Loch Tulla and Inveroran.
		The River Orchy reaches the Parish of Glenorchy and Innishail at the little village of Bridge of Orchy, with its school, Post Office, railway station, Scottish Ski Club building, and Bridge of Orchy Hotel.
		The B8074, which follows the river down Glen Orchy, is a delightful single track road with picnic areas, forest walks, waterfalls and immensely impressive river-washed stone formations.
	www.loch-awe.com /tour1.htm (151 words)

	Clan Gregor Society - The Political Context of the Battle of Glen Fruin
		In 1550 Grey Colin Campbell, Cailean Liath, became chief of the Glen Orchy lineage, and in 1583 he was succeeded by his “clever, scheming unscrupulous and cruel” son, Donnchadh Dubh a’ Churraic, Black Duncan of the Cowl, who ruled until 1631.
		An unsubstantiated, traditional account in Amelia, states that MacGregor of Glen Strae lost half of his 700 men in the Scots army at the Battle of Pinkie against the English in 1547.
		Around the time of Grey Colin’s succession, John of Glen Strae was mysteriously killed of ‘the hurt of an arrow’ in Glen Lyon, leaving the infant brother, Gregor Roy, as chief.
	www.clangregor.org /macgregor/article-glenfruin.html (7112 words)

	Forestry Commission - Glen Orchy and Glen Lochy (Scotland - Argyll and Bute) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Glen Orchy can be accessed along the single track road two miles East of Dalmally.
		For Glen Orchy, head North on the A82 towards Bridge of Orchy.
		Please note that due to forest road operations, the Glen Orchy cycle route is closed.
	www.forestry.gov.uk /website/recreation.nsf/LUWebDocsByKey/ScotlandArgyllandButeGlenOrchyandGlenLochy?Open&PrintFriendly=y (166 words)

	Undiscovered Scotland: The West Highland Way Feature Page
		This section ends at the Kings House Hotel, where Glen Coe and Glen Etive meet, and overlooked by the imposing pyramid of rock formed by the north face of Buachaille Etive Mor.
		This brings you into Glen Nevis, where all views are dominated by the bulk of Ben Nevis on the glen's north side.
		The official end of the West Highland Way is by the little roundabout at which Glen Nevis emerges onto the main A82, on the northern edge of Fort William.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /uswalks/westhighlandway (1313 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Walking and climbing - Save this one for the birds and the right weather
		LAST MONTH I WAS in Glen Etive to climb Meall nan Eun, a hill to the south-east near the foot of the glen.
		After a gentle rise to the head of the glen at 200m, the terrain changes to steeper grassy slopes, interspersed with rocky outcrops, and is the first intimation of the jumbled and tricky land that lies ahead.
		Keep to the south of the craggy prow at the head of the glen, and go south-east into Coirean Riabhach, hemmed in by steep crags, aiming for the col between Meall nan Eun and Meall Tarsuinn.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=485&id=630692005 (1025 words)

	Duncan Ban MacIntyre
		The change from Glen Etive to the capital could not have been lightly undertaken; but the poet was a restless man, and regular farm work never attracted him.
		The bard of Glen Orchy had known wild and lonely places, he lived in shielings and gamekeepers’ huts, and he was familiar with all phases of farm work and rural pastimes.
		He had followed his own recipe for longevity long before he left Glen Orchy; and we may rejoice it was so, for sustained poetic composition requires leisure and contemplation and the mental concentration that weariness makes difficult.
	www.electricscotland.com /poetry/macintyre/intro.htm (8567 words)

	River Orchy
		WHERE IS IT?: A major river in Glen Orchy (no surprises there), the A82 from Glasgow to Fort William passes it at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel, a good meeting place for paddlers.
		There is a turn-off the A82 for Glen Orchy just south of the Hotel and there are plenty of parking possibilities on this road.
		Frazer Pearce adds...'On the Orchy cross the bridge at Bridge of Orchy, the gauge is on the bridge arch downstream river right.
	www.ukriversguidebook.co.uk /orchy.htm (964 words)

	A History of Rannoch - THE MACGREGORS
		These land of Glen Orchy were the ancient home of the MacGregors, but in 1390 their chief, John MacGregor, died without leaving a satisfactory successor.
		He made his way without delay and as he was passing through Glen Lyon he encountered the MacGregors of Roro who had recently been driven from Glen Orchy.
		To Ladasach this was the most heinous of crimes and though he was a man of sixty-five he was determined to make the journey to show the defaulter the evil of his ways.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/rannoch9.htm (2491 words)

	Weather wins in battle with the elements - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Today, access to this Corbett, which lies just west of Glen Orchy on the edge of a massive, wild and mountainous quarter that’s bounded by Loch Etive in the west and the A82 Tyndrum to Glen Coe road in the east, has been simplified by the creation of a new track through the forest.
		As I pulled off the A82 and on to the single-track B8074 that runs down Glen Orchy between Bridge of Orchy and Dalmally, grey sheets of rain obscured the hills and only the bright interludes of watery sunshine encouraged me to press on.
		The approaches to Beinn Mhic- Mhonaidh (2,610ft) would be sheltered from the north-west wind by the forestry plantations that cover much of the western flanks, leaving only a brief tussle along the hill’s summit ridge when I would be exposed to the worst of the weather.
	www.sundayherald.com /47893 (757 words)

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		Glen Orchy was once famous for its pine forrest but most of the trees were cut down in the 19th century.
		Glen Orchy is overlooked by Ben Doran (3,523ft).
		Situated in Glen Affric, in what is arguably the most beautiful glen in Scotland, Loch Affric a long blue stretch of water, is surrounded by native Caledonian pine and birch woodland.
	www.lochness-centre.com /tour/newtour2.html (468 words)

	Walk #151: Bridge of Orchy to Kings House Hotel
		Buchaille Etive Mor is a beautiful mountain when viewed from Glen Coe, and is very spectactular guardian to this ancient pass through the mountains.
		The path rises up the hillside to the west of the River Orchy in a general northwesterly direction.
		After about a kilimotre it breaks out of the forest, and a slight incline leads up to the summit of Mam Carraigh, where a short track laeds up to a cairn from where some lovely views over the Black Mount and Loch Tulla are available.
	www.britishwalks.org /walks/2001/151.php (1779 words)

	The West Highland Way: Bridge of Orchy to Kingshouse
		The great Gaelic poet Duncan Ban Macintyre was born in 1724 in a croft called Druimlaighart (2 or 3 kilometres to the west) above the Allt Tolaghan and married Mary, the daughter of the innkeeper.
		If you choose to stay at Inveroran rather than Bridge of Orchy note that there is an informal campsite next to the bridge over the Allt Tolaghan (ask at the hotel first).
		The other pillar of Glen Etive's doorway is Stob Dearg (Buachaille Etive Mor - the "great shepherd of Etive"), a massive edifice of cliffs rising to a sharp peak.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~fiski/whw/whw08.html (1616 words)

	The Scottish Mountaineering Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The area is bounded on the west by Loch Linnhe and the Great Glen, to the east by Strath Spey and Glen Garry, and on the south by a line east from the head of Loch Awe through Glen Orchy to Loch Rannoch.
		On the south side of Glen Coe is the mighty Bidean nam Bian (1150m), the highest peak in the ancient county of Argyll.
		The eastern entrance to Glen Coe is guarded by the shapely Buachaille Etive Mor (1022m).
	www.smc.org.uk /highland_guides/central_1.htm (1043 words)

	The Scotsman - Scotsman Magazine - The pleasures of taking the route less travelled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I HAD ALWAYS REGARDED Beinn Fhionnlaidh as a hill to be climbed from the south-west, from Loch Creran, Glen Creran and into Glen Ure, in order to ascend the three-mile WSW ridge.
		I had always assumed that the quietness on the hill was due to its isolation, but when I approached from Glen Etive for the first time, with a recent map showing a track, I found that the majority of hillwalkers use this route.
		However, the hill appears on the very top of the map and, whilst the whole route is covered, if you want to identify views to the north then also take along map 41, Ben Nevis.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /magazine.cfm?id=232202005 (969 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Robin Howie - Climb every mountain - weather permitting
		She was puzzled, when driving up the glen, to see a large loch well before she should have seen the eastern end of Loch Lyon.
		The extended loch, with its now sterile waters, has not exactly been a scenic improvement and it is sad to think of all the drowned communities.
		The Glen Lyon approach is a longer way in, but I calculated there would be enough daylight hours with a 7am start.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1110&id=1402652004 (963 words)

	Scottish Highlands - Lochaber
		Lochaber is an area centred around the town of Fort William, situated on the west coast where the Geat Glen reaches the sea at Loch Linnhe.
		The public road runs out at the west end of the loch and beyond it is the domain of the backpacker, the desolate Glen Dessary, a through route to the mountainous wilderness of Knoydart.
		Also of note to the walker and mountaineer is Glen Finnan, which runs north of the railway halt of the same name and which gives access to hills such as Sgur nan Coireachan and Streap.
	www.jbutler.org.uk /Scotland/Lochaber/index.shtml (804 words)

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