Ardtornish is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.5464°, -5.7348°.

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Ardtornish

Ardtornish in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

Boulder above Loch Aline - geograph.org.uk - 7224476 — Richard Webb — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1.5 h–3 h

Ardtornish is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Ardtornish (Scottish Gaelic: Àird Tòirinis) is a Highland estate in Scotland located in Morvern, Lochaber. Ardtornish House is famous for its gardens and the estate is the location of the ruined Ardtornish Castle and the still-inhabited Kinlochaline Castle.

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Background

History

In the mid-18th century the area occupied by the current estate was largely in the hands of Cameron of Glendessary, with some property to the east and south the lands of Maclean of Kingairloch and the Duke of Argyll. A small area near the head of Loch Aline was owned by Murray of Stanhope. By 1800 Cameron's lands were under the control of a variety of new superiors including Maclean of Inverscaddle, MacDonald of Borrodale and MacLachlan of Callart with Stanhope's land also being held by MacLachlan. By 1850 radical changes had occurred. In 1845 MacDonald's land to the east of Loch Aline had become the 9,000 acre Achranich Estate owned by Octavius Smith, a Londoner whose father had made his…

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