Book : The Rough Guide
to Scottish Highlands and Islands (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
Book : West Highland
Way: Map/Guide
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Glencoe Visitor Centre, Glencoe PH49 4LA. Tel: 01855 811729.
In 2002 the old visitor centre was removed, and a start was made
on returning its site and car park to nature. May 2002 saw the
opening of the NTS's new £3m visitor centre on the south
side of the main road and lower down the glen, nearer to the
village of Glencoe.The buildings are laid out as a clachan, a
settlement or village. About 4 miles east of Ballachulish.
Glencoe and North Lorn
Folk Museum, Glencoe Village, Glencoe PA39 4HS. Tel: 01855 811
664. The Museum is situated in a 17th Century thatched croft
house in the main street of Glencoe Village. You will be amazed
and entertained by the variety of objects that portray the history
of this remarkable area. Topics to discover include the massacre
of Glencoe, agriculture, costume, medicine and toys. About 4
miles east of Ballachulish.
The Aluminium Story, Linnhe Road, Kinlochleven, Argyll, PA50
4SJ. Tel: 01855 831 663. In 1904, the British Aluminium Company
built the 8 mile long Blackwater Reservoir high on Rannoch Moor,
then the largest reservoir in Europe. It used the power generated
to smelt aluminium in the vastly expanded company village of
Kinlochleven. Sadly, the site stopped smelting in June 2000.
The visitor centre and library here uses imaginative audio-visual
displays, and a special presentation to tell how aluminium has
been produced in the past 80 years. About 10 miles east of Ballachulish.
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