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Arrochar

Arrochar sits at the head of Loch Long. Two miles to the west is the small village of Tarbet, which sits on the shore of Loch Lomond. It sometimes surprises people who don’t know the area that Britain’s largest sheet of fresh water is so close to the sea. From the jetty at Tarbet small ships offer cruises on the loch. Arrochar Parish Church is a whitewashed building dating from 1847. It was recently saved from demolition by the concerted effort of the villagers.

Near the Jubilee Well in Arrochar are the Cruach Tairbeirt Walks. These footpaths (totalling just over a mile and a half in length) give some wonderful views over Loch Lomond and Loch Long. Though well surfaced, they are quite steep in some places.

Some of Argyll’s finest mountains are to be found close to Arrochar, such as Ben Narnain (3036 feet) and Ben Ime (3318 feet). This area could fairly claim to be the homeland of Scottish mountaineering, as the first mountaineering club in the country, the Cobbler Club, was established here in 1865. The road westwards towards Inveraray climbs up past the 2891 feet Ben Arthur, better known as The Cobbler, and over the wonderfully named Rest and Be Thankful. The modern A83 makes easy work of this pass along which, in 1803, William and Dorothy Wordsworth struggled “doubling and doubling with laborious walk”. As they reached the summit, 860 feet above sea level, the Wordsworths noted with approval the plaque inscribed “Rest-and-be-thankful” placed here by the army troops when they repaired the old stone road in 1743.