Visitor attractions and information - Kinlochleven
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Glencoe Visitor Centre, Glencoe PH49 4LA.
Tel: 01855 811729. In 2002 the old visitor centre was removed,
and a start was made on returning its site and car park to nature.
May 2002 saw the opening of the NTS's new £3m visitor centre
on the south side of the main road and lower down the glen, nearer
to the village of Glencoe.The buildings are laid out as a clachan,
a settlement or village. About
6 miles west of Kinlochleven. |
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Glencoe
and North Lorn Folk Museum, Glencoe Village, Glencoe PA39 4HS.
Tel: 01855 811 664. The Museum is situated in a 17th Century
thatched croft house in the main street of Glencoe Village. You
will be amazed and entertained by the variety of objects that
portray the history of this remarkable area. Topics to discover
include the massacre of Glencoe, agriculture, costume, medicine
and toys. About 6 miles west of Kinlochleven. |
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The Aluminium Story, Linnhe Road, Kinlochleven,
Argyll, PA50 4SJ. Tel: 01855 831 663. In 1904, the British Aluminium
Company built the 8 mile long Blackwater Reservoir high on Rannoch
Moor, then the largest reservoir in Europe. It used the power
generated to smelt aluminium in the vastly expanded company village
of Kinlochleven. Sadly, the site stopped smelting in June 2000.
The visitor centre and library here uses imaginative audio-visual
displays, and a special presentation to tell how aluminium has
been produced in the past 80 years. Location: In the centre of Kinlochleven. |
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