Arrochar
Arrochar is a village at the head of Loch Long in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The Arrochar Alps are named after the village. The village is within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 415 residents
- Description: village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Arrochan” and “Arrochar, Argyll”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Arrochar Church and Arrochar and Tarbet railway station.
Arrochar and Tarbet railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Arrochar and Tarbet railway station is a railway station on the West Highland Line in Scotland. It stands at the western end of Tarbet. It is sited 19 miles 45 chains from Craigendoran Junction, near Helensburgh, between Ardlui and Garelochhead.
Beinn Narnain
Peak
Photo: Alan White, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beinn Narnain is a mountain in the southern Highlands of Scotland, near Arrochar. It forms part of a group of hills known as the Arrochar Alps, and is a Munro. Beinn Narnain is situated 2½ miles northwest of Arrochar.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Succoth and Ardgartan.
Ardgartan
Hamlet
Photo: Phil Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ardgartan is a hamlet in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is located on the shores of Loch Long at the bottom of Glen Croe. Ardgartan lies within the Argyll Forest Park which itself is within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park.
Tarbet
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tarbet is a village on Loch Lomond in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Arrochar is a village two miles west, on Loch Long. Tarbet and Arrochar are good bases for exploring the west bank of Loch Lomond, but they're far from peaceful.
Arrochar
- Category: locality
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.19547° or 56° 11′ 44″ northLongitude
-4.74808° or 4° 44′ 53″ westPopulation
415Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB AOHOpen location code
9C8Q57W2+5QOpenStreetMap ID
node 1382892009OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Arrochar” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Arrochar (Argyll)”
- Basque: “Arrochar”
- Catalan: “Arrochar”
- Chinese: “阿罗查尔”
- Chinese: “阿羅查爾”
- Dutch: “Arrochar”
- French: “Arrochar”
- Indonesian: “Arrochar”
- Irish: “An t-Arar”
- Irish: “An t-Àrar”
- Irish: “An t-Archar”
- Irish: “An t-Àrchar”
- Irish: “An Tairbeart Iar”
- Italian: “Arrochar”
- Russian: “Аррочар”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An t-Arar”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Tairbeart Iar”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Arrochar”
- Welsh: “An t–Àrchar”
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Highlights include Fascadail, Arrochar and Skatepark.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Arrochar”. Photo: Black Kite, CC BY-SA 3.0.