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Corpach (Scottish Gaelic: A' Chorpaich) is a large village north of Fort William, in the Scottish Highlands. The canal lock at Corpach Basin on Loch Linnhe , east of the narrows leading to Loch Eil , is the western sea entrance of the Caledonian Canal .
Corpach station opened on 1 April 1901. [3] Loch Eil lies immediately to the south of the station.. The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1936 to 1939. [5] A camping coach was also positioned here by the Scottish Region from 1961 to 1969, the coach was a Pullman camping coach until 1964 and a standard one thereafter, all camping coaches in the region were withdrawn at the end of ...
The Clan Maclean invaded and were confronted by the Camerons at Corpach. It is recorded that a young MacLean chieftain, Ewen or John Abrach, the son of John Garve Maclean of Coll was killed. [2] [3] The Camerons were led in the battle by their chief Ailean nan Creach, and completely routed the Maclean forces, [4] retaining their lands. However ...
By early 1810, the steam engine at Corpach was ready, and the coffer dam to enable the sea lock to be built was completed by mid-1810, after considerable difficulty. Completing the lock was a priority, because the steam engine had to be kept running until the gates could hold back the sea, and it was the first lock to become operational, being ...
Commissioned in October 1940, HMS St Christopher was in service for a total of four years, until being decommissioned in December 1944. The base was first commanded by Commander A.E.P. Welman DSO DSC RN, and existed to train the crews of a variety of different inshore patrol craft.
The parish was once much larger than the present ecclesiastical parish. It covered the Burgh of Fort William, North Ballachulish, Banavie, Corpach and Onich, Ardgour, Blaich, Duisky, Clovulin and Garvan. The quoad sacra parish of Duncansburgh, consisting of Fort William and Inverlochy, was created in 1860 [3] The present parish church is in ...
Lochaber contains no early monastic locations, [7] but the numerous placenames starting with the element "Kil-" or "Cille-" suggest early Christian sites dating from the period 600-900, while the placename element "annat" found near Corpach suggests the site of an early mother church. [8]
Druim Fada (744 m) is a mountain in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. It lies on the northern shore of Loch Eil in Lochaber, near the village of Corpach.. Taking the form of a long ridge running east to west, the peak is mostly grassy in nature although it has a number of shallow corries on its northern side.