Badachro () is a former
fishing village, in the north west
Highlands of
Scotland.
Geography
Badachro sits about 3 km south of
Gairloch on the shore of
Gair Loch, and is a natural harbour popular with yachts. Approximately 2 miles to the SE are located the
Fairy Lochs
The Fairy Lochs is a recent English name for ''Na Lochan Sgeireach'' and are a small group of freshwater lochans approximately south-east of the village of Badachro, near Gairloch in Wester Ross, Scottish Highlands. The lochans have become known ...
, the site of a 1945 plane crash which is now a designated war grave. The crash site has been preserved as a memorial to the USAAF servicemen who lost their lives in the accident, and is accessible by a rough track near the Shieldaig Lodge Hotel.
Badachro is in the
Highland council area.
Queen Victoria visited Shieldaig Lodge Hotel in 1877
[Malone, D. 'Exploring Gairloch’s South Side', Gairloch Museum, Printed The Gairloch and District Times.] but never made it to Badchro village itself as the roads were too bad. Today Shieldaig Lodge is home to a small watersports centr
Gairloch Canoe and Kayak Centre
Fishing
At the end of the nineteenth century, Badachro was a busy fishing village.
, landed here and at
Gairloch, was dried at one of two
curing stations at Badachro - one on
Eilean Horrisdale (cured by resident Kenneth BAIN, master seaman) and one on Eilean Tioram. Today,
lobster
Lobsters are a family (biology), family (Nephropidae, Synonym (taxonomy), synonym Homaridae) of marine crustaceans. They have long bodies with muscular tails and live in crevices or burrows on the sea floor. Three of their five pairs of legs ...
s,
crab
Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen) ( el, βραχύς , translit=brachys = short, / = tail), usually hidden entirely under the thorax. They live in all the ...
s and
prawns are landed for markets in the south and in Europe.
Footnotes
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Populated places in Ross and Cromarty