<div id="LayerE10" style="visibility: visible; overflow: visible; width:645px; z-index:10; left:15px; top:15px; position:relative; "><div align="center"><span class="Black_SubHead">Balquhidder</span></div> <p><span class="Black_Head"> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;" bordercolor="#000000" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="100%" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="middle" align="center" colspan="3"> <div><img style="margin: 10px;" title="Situated at the head of Loch Voil, Balquhidder (near Callander and the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park in Central Scotland) is overlooked by the dramatic mountain terrain of the Braes of Balquhidder. " height="153" alt="Situated at the head of Loch Voil, Balquhidder (near Callander and the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park in Central Scotland) is overlooked by the dramatic mountain terrain of the Braes of Balquhidder. " src="/EZ/ot/ot/imagelibrary/Loch__Voil__by__David__Felgate.jpg" width="204" align="left" /></div> <div align="left"><span class="Black_Text">The attractive little hamlet of Balquhidder (which is pronounced Bal-wh-idder) is overlooked by the dramatic mountain terrain of the Braes of Balquhidder, at the head of the glorious Loch Voil. <br /> <br /> </span><span class="Black_Text">Balquhidder Glen is popular for fishing; the locality, with its magnificent scenery, is steeped in folklore and clan history.</span></div> <div align="left"><span class="Black_Text"><br /> Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, who became the Episcopalian Minister of Balquhidder in 1664, set out to collect his parishioners' many striking stories about elves, fairies, fauns, doppelgangers, wraiths, and other beings of, in Kirk's words, "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." <br /> <br /> The Minister's work, <span class="Black_Text"><span class="Green_Text_Bold_Small"><span class="Black_Text_Bold_Small"><span class="Black_Text_Small"><span class="Black_Text"><em><span class="MidGreen_Text">"<strong>The secret commonwealth;</strong> or an essay on the nature and actions of the subterranean (and for the most part) invisible people heretofoir going under the name of faunes and fairies, or the lyke, among the low country Scots, as they are described by those who have the second sight (1691)"</span></em></span></span></span></span> </span><span class="Black_Text">was left in manuscript at the time of his death and was first published in 1815 by Sir Walter Scott.</span><br /> <br /> <span class="Black_Text">However Balquhidder, near Callander in Central Scotland, in the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, is best known for its associations with Rob Roy MacGregor, Balquhidder`s most famous resident. <br /> <span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="MidGreen_Text"><span class="MidGreen_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><img style="margin: 10px;" title="Rob Roy's Grave, Balquhidder kirk yard. Rob Roy MacGregor is regarded as a famous Scottish folk hero and outlaw of the early 18th century." height="153" alt="Rob Roy's Grave, Balquhidder kirk yard. Rob Roy MacGregor is regarded as a famous Scottish folk hero and outlaw of the early 18th century." src="/EZ/ot/ot/imagelibrary/balq_rob-roys-grave_main.jpg" width="204" align="right" /></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="MidGreen_Text"><span class="MidGreen_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">Rob Roy and his father Donald Glas fought on the Jacobite side in the army led by 'Bonnie Dundee' at the battle of Killiecrankie on the 27th July 1689. The Jacobites defeated the government forces under General Hugh Mackay. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="MidGreen_Text"><span class="MidGreen_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><br /> <br /> </span></span></span></span></span></span>Rob Roy led a colourful life and his grave, marked with the appropriately defiant motto 'MacGregor Despite Them' is in Balquhidder churchyard. He lies with the remains of his wife and two sons, the graves marked by three flat stones.<br /> <br /> </span><span class="Black_Text"><img style="margin: 10px;" title="Glen Buckie, where Dr. Archie Cameron was captured in one of the last acts of the 1745 rebellion. Camercon was hanged in London, the last Jacobite to be killed for treason. " height="153" alt="Glen Buckie, where Dr. Archie Cameron was captured in one of the last acts of the 1745 rebellion. Camercon was hanged in London, the last Jacobite to be killed for treason. " src="/EZ/ot/ot/imagelibrary/Glen_Buckie.jpg" width="234" align="left" /><br /> Glen Buckie, now a quiet backwater on the south side of Balquhidder Glen, was the scene of one of the last acts of the 1745 rebellion. <br /> <br /> In the early 1750's Dr. Archie Cameron had returned to Scotland hoping to raise support for a possible last-ditch coup against George II. Cameron was captured in Glen Buckie. He was hanged in London - the last Jacobite to be killed for treason.</span></span></div> <div align="left"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div><span class="Black_Text"> <div align="left"><br /> Visitor centres and tourist attractions in the region include the Crannog Centre on Loch Tay and the Breadalbane Folklore Visitor Centre in Killin. Other historic visitor attractions in Central Scotland include castles and the history of the Scots clans.<img style="margin: 10px;" title="Albino Stag, an example of local wildlife at Balquhidder, Central Scotland" height="153" alt="Albino Stag, an example of local wildlife at Balquhidder, Central Scotland" src="/EZ/ot/ot/imagelibrary/Albino_Stag_by_Graham_Benny.jpg" width="204" align="right" /><br /> <span class="Black_Text"><br /> </span><span class="Black_Text">The Online Trossachs website provides Tourist and visitor information for Balquhidder and lists holiday accommodation in the Trossachs region in Central Scotland.<br /> <br /> </span><span class="Black_Text">Rural outdoor activities in the local Scottish countryside include golfing at St Fillans, fishing and watersports on Loch Tay and Loch Earn at St Fillans and Lochearnhead and cycling, walking and climbing in the mountains in the area near Balquhidder, Strathyre and in the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park.</span></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span><span class="Black_Head"> </span></p></div><div id="LayerE20" style="visibility: visible; 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