Badachro

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Badachro (Scottish Gaelic: Bad a' Chrò, meaning "the copse of the pen")[1] is a former fishing village, in the northwest Highlands of Scotland.

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Post townGAIRLOCH
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Badachro
Small fishing boats pulled up on grassy shore in foreground, with yachts moored in a sheltered bay and hills beyond
Boats pulled up on the grass at Badachro
Badachro is located in Highland
Badachro
Badachro
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Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townGAIRLOCH
Postcode districtIV21
Dialling code01445
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57.69738°N 5.72468°W / 57.69738; -5.72468
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Geography

Badachro sits about 3 km south of Gairloch on the shore of Gair Loch, and is a natural harbour popular with yachts. [2] The Fairy Lochs lie approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) to the south-east, and are 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.

Queen Victoria visited Shieldaig Lodge Hotel in 1877.[3]

Fishing

At the end of the nineteenth century, Badachro was a busy fishing village.[4] Cod landed there and at Gairloch, and were dried at one of two curing stations at Badachro. Today, lobster, crab, and prawns are fished for markets south of the town.[4]

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