<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">Strathyre</span></div> <div align="left"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"> <div align="left"> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;" bordercolor="#000000" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="100%" align="center" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="middle" align="center" colspan="2"> <div align="left"><span class="Black_Text">Strathyre (from the Gaelic 'sheltered valley') is situated at the head of Loch Lubnaig ('Crooked Loch') below Beinn an t-Sithean (pronounced Ben Shean - 'Mountain of the Fairies' or 'Fairy Hillocks'). <br /> </span></div> <div align="left"><span class="Black_Text">Strathyre is often described as 'the first highland village' as it is the first village north of the Highland Boundary Fault line which passes through Kilmahog. </span></div></td> <td valign="middle" align="center"> <div><img style="margin: 0px;" title="Loch Lubnaig " height="153" alt="Loch Lubnaig " src="/EZ/ot/ot/imagelibrary/Loch__Lubnaig__by__Richard__Webb.jpg" width="204" /></div></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="middle" align="center"> <div><img style="margin: 0px;" title="Strathyre below Benn Sheann" height="153" alt="Strathyre below Benn Sheann" src="/EZ/ot/ot/imagelibrary/Strathyre.jpg" width="218" /></div></td> <td valign="middle" align="center" colspan="2"> <div align="left"><span class="Black_Text"> </span> </div> <div align="left"><span class="Black_Text">The Strathyre valley straddles the river Balvaig which flows between Loch Voil in Balquhidder and Loch Lubnaig. The hills on each side of the valley are covered by the Strathyre forest. <br /> <br /> </span></div> <div align="left"><span class="Black_Text">The settlement was built after the construction of the military road from Stirling to Fort William in 1750, one of three cottar towns created to accommodate the shift of population towards the new road. (A cottar is a highland peasant farmer.) Strathyre was known as Nineveh in Rob Roy times because of its many inns. <br /> <br /> </span></div> <div align="left"><span class="Black_Text"> </span> </div></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="2"> <div> <div align="left"><span class="Black_Text"> </span> </div> <div align="left"><span class="Black_Text">The village was originally located on the western side of the river Balvaig but with the advent of the railway in 1870, the original cottar houses were destroyed and the new hotels, villas and station were constructed on the opposite river bank. <br /> <br /> The village once enjoyed seven trains each day in summer and four daily in winter. The railway was closed following a rock fall in 1965 but this merely brought forward the closure planned by the infamous Dr. Beeching. <br /> <br /> </span></div> <div align="left"><span class="Black_Text">Dorothy and William Wordsworth stayed in the village on 13 Sept. 1803 and walked on the local hills. William Wordsworth was inspired to write his poem "The Solitary Reaper". <br /> </span></div></div></td> <td valign="middle" align="center" width="33.33%"> <div> <img style="margin: 0px;" title="Old Railway at Strathyre" height="189" alt="Old Railway at Strathyre" src="/EZ/ot/ot/imagelibrary/xl0749.jpg" width="153" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div align="left"> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;" bordercolor="#000000" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="100%" align="center" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="middle" align="center" width="100%"><span class="Black_Text"> <div align="left"><img style="margin: 10px;" title="Strathyre Memorial Garden" height="153" alt="Strathyre Memorial Garden" src="/EZ/ot/ot/imagelibrary/p8.jpg" width="210" align="left" /><br /> <br /> <br /> Today the village has a population of approximately 250 people.<br /> <br /> The village is a hive of activity with three Inns, a Post Office shop and a local Primary School. <br /> </div></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></div></div><div id="LayerE20" style="visibility: visible; 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