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Aberchalder
Sign in to saveAberchalder (Gaelic: Obar Chaladair) is a small settlement and estate at the northern end of Loch Oich in the Scottish Highlands and is in the Highland council area of Scotland. It lies on the A82 road and is situated in two parishes, Boleskine and Kilmonivaig. Fort Augustus is within .
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Vinony files it under Highland Estates and Populated places in Lochaber.
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- Locality
- Fort Augustus
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
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- human settlement
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
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- Lock keepers cottage at Aberchalder.jpg
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- Etymology
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Aberchalder (Gaelic: Obar Chaladair) is a small settlement and estate at the northern end of Loch Oich in the Scottish Highlands and is in the Highland council area of Scotland. It lies on the A82 road and is situated in two parishes, Boleskine and Kilmonivaig. Fort Augustus is within .
==Etymology== The town is named for its location. The prefix Aber refers to "the mouth" or "confluence", while the suffix Chalder translates to "of the calder". Calder itself is a corruption of Coille Dur with Coille meaning "of the wood" and Dur used as an obsolete Gaelic term for "water".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aberchalder” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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