Glencoe Lochan

* We made one overnight stop on our journey from Plockton to Glasgow in the Glencoe area. I wish we would have had more time to spend in this wonderful Glen. The dramatic landscapes were impressive I need to revisit the area. This was taken at the Glencoe Lochan a small loch that was very pleasant to wander round. There is quite a nice love story attached to this small loch.

 

Glencoe Lochan is a tract of forest, surrounding a small lake or lochan, located just north of Glencoe village in the Scottish Highlands. It was planted in the 1890s by Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, with trees transplanted from the Pacific Northwest of Canada.

After acquiring the Glencoe Estate in 1895, Smith and his wife, Isabella Sophia Hardisty, moved from Canada to Scotland. Soon after their arrival, Isabella became increasingly homesick for her ancestral lands in Canada. In an attempt to abate his wife's depression, Smith had this forest painstakingly planted, and granted it to her as a private refuge.

 

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