Glenachulish

Glenachulish (pronounced Glen - ah - hoolish) is a hamlet which lies roughly 3 miles north of the village of Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands. The name derives from the Gaelic Gleann a'Chaolais, which means Valley of the Narrows, the narrows in question being found in Loch Leven, a sea loch which joins on to Loch Linnhe.

Glenachulish was a forestry village, the original houses there being built by the Forestry Commission in the mid 20th century. Subsequent house building has swelled the number of dwelling places, though the actual population probably peaked in the 1970s.

While the original inhabitants came to work in the forestry (many of them, ironically, from Hebridean islands where few trees grow) the current population also includes some who have moved to the area from Central Scotland and England.