Badachro
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Coordinates: 57°41′51″N 5°43′29″W / 57.69738°N 5.72468°W
| Badachro | |
| Scottish Gaelic: Bad a' Chrodha | |
  Badachro
Badachro shown within Scotland |
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| OS grid reference | |
|---|---|
| Council area | Highland |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | IV21 2 |
| Police | Northern |
| Fire | Highlands and Islands |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| EU Parliament | Scotland |
| List of places: UK • Scotland • | |
Badachro (Scottish Gaelic: Bad a' Chrodha) is a remote fishing village, in the north west Highlands of Scotland.
[edit] Geography
Badachro sits about 3 km south of Gairloch on the shore of Gair Loch, and is an excellent natural harbour popular with yachts.[1] It is scenic and has a pub called the Badacro Inn and a small restaurant. Approximately 2 miles to the SE are located the Fairy Lochs, the site of a 1945 plane crash which is now a designated war grave. The crash site has been preserved as a memorial to the USAAF servicemen who lost their lives in the accident, and is accessible by a rough track near the Shieldaig Lodge Hotel.
Badachro is in the Highland council area.
[edit] Fishing
At the end of the nineteenth century, Badachro was a busy fishing village.[2] Cod, landed here and at Gairloch, was dried at one of two curing stations at Badachro - one on Eilean Horrisdale and one on Eilean Tioram. Today, lobsters, crabs and prawns are landed for markets in the south and in Europe.[2]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Mark Hitchin. "Ardnamurchan Point to Gairloch". Knot Pilot. http://fattie.freehostia.com/KnotPilot/APGL/index.html#Badachro. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
- ^ a b "Badachro". Am Baile. http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/item_photograph.jsp?item_id=59316. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
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