Old Photographs Kingshouse Hotel Glencoe Scotland

Old photograph of Kingshouse Hotel in Glencoe, Scotland. The Kings House Hotel is a remote inn and hotel at the eastern end of Glen Coe at the junction with Glen Etive in the Scottish Highlands. It is sited in an isolated position, about one mile to the East of the head of the glen towards Rannoch Moor, and faces towards Buachaille Etive Mor mountain. It is called the King's House because British troops were billeted here following the Battle of Culloden in 1746. In the 18th century, a strategic military road crossed the River Etive at this point by the Inn. The military route, which was built by the British army in the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rising, then headed towards Glen Coe before ascending the Devil's Staircase to Kinlochleven. Parts of the former military route are now used as the West Highland Way. In late 1746, the buildings became barracks for Crown forces under the command of the Duke of Cumberland . The inn was used as a base by troops conducting operations to crush or capture any remaining Jacobites in the western Highlands. By the late 18th century, the building had reverted to its original use as a coaching inn serving travellers that came from Ballachulish to Loch Lomond via Tyndrum. In 1803, the inn was visited by Dorothy Wordsworth, the sister of Romantic poet William Wordsworth.

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