Scottish Highlands Towns and Villages
Dalwhinnie holiday accommodation cottages, cabins, caravans and hotels.
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Dalwhinnie, is rather a remote village at the northern end of the equally remote Pass of Drumochter started life as a gathering place for the huge herds of cattle driven in from all parts of the West Highlands before making the slow journey to the markets or trysts at Falkirk and Crieff. It was here, in 1745, that the famous General John Cope (remembered in the song 'Hey, Johnny Cope' declined to meet the Jacobites in their own familiar terrain. Cope retired to Inverness leaving the way open for the Highlanders to make their easy and unopposed way to Edinburgh and, subsequently, for his own defeat at Prestonpans, near Edinburgh. At 1188 ft, Dalwhinnie is the highest village in the Highlands. |
| The inn, built in 1729 and now a hotel, did not impress Queen Victoria who, arriving there by pony and carriage after a 13 hour journey from Balmoral in 1861, had to dine on 'two miserable starved Highland chickens'. The fare is much better now. A distillery offers some employment locally and is open to the public | |