Upper Glen Roy

Places

The principle route eastwards connecting Lochaber and Badenoch ran through here prior to the construction of Thomas Telford's Parliamentary road along Loch Lagganside in 1817. The present road's origin is unclear but is thought to be a spur built by General Wade or his successors. The construction is strikingly similar to their other work. This part of the Glen is deserted now apart from one resident estate worker at Annat.  It was once an extremely busy and important communication route used by armies on the march, bands of caterans coming and going on cattle raids, fugitives from various conflicts, priests on their clandestine ministries, merchants and traders, drovers and smugglers. Convenient mountain passes provided access from here to the Cameron lands of Glen Gloy and Dochanassie as well as the Glengarry lands of Aberchalder and Laggan Auchindrom. The Badenoch bridle path connected the Brae Lochaber people with their kinsfolk who had overspilled into settlements on the upper reaches of the Spey in Clan Chattan country. Throughout this area there is plenty evidence of the large scale sheep-farming which flourished over the last two centuries. This was at the expense of the traditional smallholders whose abandoned habitations can still be traced at the more sizeable townships of Upper and Lower Glen Turret  as well as the settlements of Luib Chonnail, Leckroy, and Annat. The tracks and river crossings are currently used by the deer-stalking estate. This section culminates at the more recent Victorian Shooting Lodge and associated buildings at Brae Roy originally known as Dalriach. 

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