Badachro
| Badachro | |
|---|---|
 Boats pulled up on the grass at Badachro | |
| OS grid reference | NG781736 |
| Civil parish | |
| Council area | |
| Lieutenancy area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GAIRLOCH |
| Postcode district | IV21 |
| Dialling code | 01445 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
| Scottish Parliament | |
Badachro (Scottish Gaelic: Bad a' Chrò)[1] is a former fishing village, in the north west Highlands of Scotland.
Geography
Badachro sits about 3 km south of Gairloch on the shore of Gair Loch, and is an excellent natural harbour popular with yachts.[2] It is scenic and has a pub called the Badachro Inn and a gift shop with local crafts called Latitude 57. 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.
Fishing
At the end of the nineteenth century, Badachro was a busy fishing village.[3] 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.[3]
Footnotes
- ^ Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland
- ^ Mark Hitchin. "Ardnamurchan Point to Gairloch". Knot Pilot. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
- ^ a b "Badachro". Am Baile. Retrieved 15 November 2009.