Spean Bridge

Spean Bridge ( Gaelic: Drochaid Aonachain ) is a small village in the Scottish Highlands.

The name of the settlement dates back to a bridge over the same river. Mistakenly is frequently assumed that it was doing to the bridge in the center, which was built by Thomas Telford in 1819 and leads the A82 today. In reality, however, the name goes back to a bridge near the modern village near Highbridge. It was built in 1736 as part of the road between Fort William and Fort Augustus on behalf of the British Field Marshal George Wade. The bridge collapsed a 1913, so that today only the pillars.

Spean Bridge is located in the Great Glen. Through the village run the highways A82, which leads coming from the south from Fort William to Inverness in the north, and the A86 which carries east of Spean Bridge to Kingussie, where it meets the A9. The town also has a railway station on the West Highland Line, which is served by First ScotRail. In addition to several pairs of trains between Glasgow and Mallaig also keeps the tension part of the London - Fort William Caledonian Sleeper. Between 1903 and 1933 the town was the starting point of the Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway, which was stopped for lack of economic viability.

In the near Spean Bridge, at the junction of A82 and the road to Achnacarry, is the Commando Memorial, a war memorial, dedicated to the Commandos who trained between 1942 and 1945 in Achnacarry at Spean Bridge on the property of the clan Cameron were. North of the Commando Memorial, the two lakes Loch Lochy and, to the west in Glen Dessarry, Loch Arkaig, both popular hiking destinations. In Achnacarry, at the eastern end of Loch Arkaig, is the Museum of the Clan Cameron.