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]
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  Glenbranter Location within Argyll and Bute | |
| OS grid reference | NS 11045 97773 |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | DUNOON, ARGYLL |
| Postcode district | PA23 |
| Dialling code | 01369 |
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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
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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
editThere 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
editThe 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]
Gallery
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Glenbranter Bridge -
Loch Eck, Benmore-Glenbranter Forestry Road -
Glenbranter Cottages -
Old Bridge at Glenshellish Farm, Glenbranter, Cowal -
Argyll and Bute - Lauder Memorial, Invernoaden - 20230616152724
See also
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edit- ^ "Leave the world behind at Glenbranter". Scotland Forestry Commission.
- ^ "Website Temporarily Unavailable". strachurdlhs.org.uk.
- ^ "GLENBRANTER, BRIDGEND, BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER CUR (LB18186)". portal.historicenvironment.scot.
- ^ "Lauder Monument, Invernoaden, Argyll Forest — See Loch Lomond :: What to do in Loch Lomond and Trossachs". See Loch Lomond. 7 January 2023.
- ^ "Interesting Address from Harry Lauder". The McGill Daily. 26 November 1917. pp. 1–2. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
- ^ Manchester, Reading Room. "Casualty Details". Cwgc.org.
- ^ Stories, CWGC. "Captain John Currie Lauder - Soldier Son of "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador" | CWGC". CWGC Stories.
- ^ "Invernoaden, Lauder Memorial | Canmore". canmore.org.uk.
- ^ "How Britain built work camps for the unemployed in the 1930s". Socialist Worker. 3 July 2012.
External links
edit- Map sources for Glenbranter
- Argyll Forest Park, Glenbranter
- BBC World War I at Home
- Captain John Lauder, University of Edinburgh
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