This site will be propagated, in years to come, from the information contributed to www.benderloch.org.uk/forum which is an area where every snippet, image, memory, archive, question, fact and detail about the parish can be recorded for everyone to share and enjoy. This information will be brought forward to here as time goes by in a more comprehensive format to tell the story of the parish from the Big Bang to the Present Day - please visit the forum for the more interesting stuff presently.

A very simplified timeline of the area - click on each to follow the trails What happened here - when? From the big bang to the Ice age: raised beach, volcanoes, geology, Early Man: start of human civilisation Bronze age: 2000 AD - field boundaries, cairns, standing stones, Iceland eruption Iron Age: 500 BC - 800 AD - duns, farming, trading Picts and Celts: Beregonium, Uisnach, Deirdre, Alba Vikings: Somerled, Fingal The Clans: Campbells of Lochnell and of Barcaldine, Bruce to the Jacobites: upheaval and discord 1700's: Roy map 1755, Statistical account 1800's : Census's 1841 - 1891, Statistical account, potato famine, clearances, Old parish records 1788 - 1855, Birth Marriage and Death records 1855 - 1900, Grave inscriptions 1900's Census 1901, Grave inscriptions, BMD records, WWI and II, railway, village

Places of the area - click on each to find out its history Ferlochan Letterwalton Around Dalintober Barcaldine Castle Culcharan Seabank to Shian Balure of Shian Eriska Ardentinny Fuarachy Balure, Lochnell Lochnell Shenavalle Kinloch Moss Barvullin Kintaline Keil Crofts Selma The modern Village Craigneuk Ledaig

Records of the area Old Parish Records BMD from 1855 Census 1841 Census 1851 Census 1861 Census 1871 Census 1881 Census 1891 Census 1901 Surnames

Items of interest Graveyards Statisical Accounts 1795 and 1830 Current Weather Webcam Flora Fauna An t'Sailean Salt Marsh Ardmucknish Bay and Tralee Beach Ben Lora SWT South Shian Woodland reserve Geology Chalybeate Spring

Interests of the area Occupations Forestry Fishing Farming Railway Tourism Past businesses Our locality Families Tartans and Insignia Photographs Old Images around the area Maps of the area

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