Glenbranter

Glenbranter
Glenbranter, Cottages
Scotland
Scotland
Glenbranter
Location within Argyll and Bute
OS grid referenceNS 11045 97773
Council area
  • Argyll and Bute
Lieutenancy area
  • Argyll and Bute
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDUNOON, ARGYLL
Postcode districtPA23
Dialling code01369
UK Parliament
  • Argyll and Bute
Scottish Parliament
  • Argyll and Bute
List of places
UK
Scotland
56°08′07″N 5°02′32″W / 56.135145°N 5.0423423°W / 56.135145; -5.0423423

Glenbranter is a hamlet and former estate, once owned by Sir Harry Lauder, on the northwest shore of Loch Eck in the Argyll Forest Park, on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, West of Scotland.[1][2]

The River Cur passes the main entrance to the hamlet, it flows under the two arch bridge called Bridend. Built around c1806, as part of the road reconstruction between Strachur and Ardentinny. The bridge has been designated since August 1980 (LB18186).[3]

Harry Lauder

Glenbranter Mansion House, seat of Sir Harry Lauder

Lauder bought the Glenbranter Estate on 13 October 1916; he sold it to the Forestry Commission in 1921 and it became part of the Argyll Forest Park in 1935. The Estate House was demolished in 1956.[4]

Lauder Monument

There is a memorial to Harry Lauder's son, Captain John Currie Lauder, of the 8th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, who died at Pozières on 28 December 1916, during the First World War.[5][6][7] The monument is a short walk from the A815 road.[8]

Work camp

The estate was the location of a work camp in the 1930s, part of the MacDonald National Government's Instructional Centres scheme. Men were given three months' "training" on a workfare-like scheme.[9]

  • Glenbranter Bridge
    Glenbranter Bridge
  • Loch Eck, Benmore-Glenbranter Forestry Road
    Loch Eck, Benmore-Glenbranter Forestry Road
  • Glenbranter Cottages
    Glenbranter Cottages
  • Old Bridge at Glenshellish Farm, Glenbranter, Cowal
    Old Bridge at Glenshellish Farm, Glenbranter, Cowal
  • Argyll and Bute - Lauder Memorial, Invernoaden - 20230616152724
    Argyll and Bute - Lauder Memorial, Invernoaden - 20230616152724

See also

References

  1. ^ "Leave the world behind at Glenbranter". Scotland Forestry Commission.
  2. ^ "Website Temporarily Unavailable". strachurdlhs.org.uk.
  3. ^ "GLENBRANTER, BRIDGEND, BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER CUR (LB18186)". portal.historicenvironment.scot.
  4. ^ "Lauder Monument, Invernoaden, Argyll Forest — See Loch Lomond :: What to do in Loch Lomond and Trossachs". See Loch Lomond. 7 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Interesting Address from Harry Lauder". The McGill Daily. 26 November 1917. pp. 1–2. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  6. ^ Manchester, Reading Room. "Casualty Details". Cwgc.org.
  7. ^ Stories, CWGC. "Captain John Currie Lauder - Soldier Son of "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador" | CWGC". CWGC Stories.
  8. ^ "Invernoaden, Lauder Memorial | Canmore". canmore.org.uk.
  9. ^ "How Britain built work camps for the unemployed in the 1930s". Socialist Worker. 3 July 2012.
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