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Glenfinnan Monument, (NTS), A830, 18½m W of Fort William at Lochaber. Site: open all year. Visitor Centre: open April to mid May & September and October, daily 10am-1pm & 2-5pm. Mid-May to August, daily 9.30am-6pm. Admission charge. Shop and snack bar. Disabled car park adjacent to Centre; shop and exhibition have easy level access.
Alexander Macdonald of Glenaladale erected the Glenfinnan Monument, set amid superb Highland scenery at the head of Loch Shiel in 1815 in tribute to the clansmen who fought and died in the cause of Prince Charles Edward Stuart.
The raising of the Prince's Standard took place at the head of the loch on 19 August 1745, in the last attempt to reinstate the exiled Stuarts on the throne of Great Britain and Ireland. Despite its beginnings and subsequent successes, the Princes campaign came to its grim conclusion in 1746 on the battlefield at Culloden.
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- Landmark