Old travel Blog photograph of the Parish Church by the Alexandra Hotel in Fort William, Scotland. The present church building was opened in August 1882 when the church leader Professor Charteris preached in English, and Mr Watson of Kiltearn in Gaelic. Historically, this area of Lochaber was strongly Clan Cameron country, and there were a number of mainly Cameron settlements in the area. The town grew in size as a settlement when the fort was constructed to control the population after Oliver Cromwell's invasion during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and then to suppress the Jacobite uprisings of the 18th century. Fort William is now a major tourist centre, with Glen Coe just to the south, Aonach Mòr to the east and Glenfinnan to the west, on the Road to the Isles.
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