Caledonian Canal With Bagpipes Music On History Visit To Corpach Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish bagpipes music, of the Caledonian Canal on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Corpach, Scottish Gaelic: A' Chorpaich, a large village north of Fort William, in the Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. The name Corpach is reputedly based on the Gaelic for field of corpses, so called because it was perhaps used as a resting place when taking coffins of chieftains on the way to burial on Island of Iona. The Battle of Corpach in about 1470 saw Clan Cameron rout Clan MacLean. During World War II, Corpach was the engineering base for HMS St Christopher which was a training base for Royal Navy Coastal Forces. The Caledonian canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William in Scotland. The canal was constructed in the early nineteenth century by Scottish engineer Thomas Telford. The canal runs some 60 miles from north east to south west and reaches 106 feet above sea level. Only one third of the entire length is man made, the rest being formed by Loch Dochfour, Loch Ness, Loch Oich, and Loch Lochy. These lochs are located in the Great Glen, on a geological fault in the Earth's crust. There are 29 locks, including eight at Neptune's Staircase, Banavie, four aqueducts and 10 bridges in the course of the canal. There was an upsurge in commercial traffic during the First World War, when components for the construction of mines were shipped through the canal on their way from America to U.S. Naval Base 18, Muirtown Basin, Inverness, and fishing boats used it to avoid possible enemy action on the longer route around the north of Scotland. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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