GLEN AFFRIC
30 miles west of Millwood House
One of the most beautiful landscapes in Scotland, with
slender lochs in the valley, well-wooded hillsides and a river rising
among the 3,000 ft mountains at its head, wild roe deer can be spotted
here in the spring and winter months. Glen Affric has been greatly altered
by two separate interests.
In 1946 the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board dammed
the River Affric to create the five
mile Loch Benevean. Its power station at Fasnakyle is unobtrusively
located and is faced with local yellow sandstone. It is well worth taking
the walk to the two waterfalls in the narrow Affric gorge - the Badger
Fall and the Dog Fall, the scenery is splendid.
Both sides of the glen are cloaked in Forestry Commission
plantations. A determined effort is being made to help Glen Affric's
remnant of the old Caledonian Pine Forest to extend and regenerate. Forest
walks and picnic places have been laid out beside the Dog Falls.
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