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Acharn, a village and a burn in Kenmore parish, Perthshire. The village stands at the burn's month, on the S shore of Loch Tay, 1¾ mile above Kenmore. A neat little place, it has a public school, which, with accommodation for 118 children, had (1879) an average attendanee of 80, and a grant of £79, 2s. The burn rises on Creagan na Beinne, at an altitude of 2400 feet, and has a northward course of about 5 miles. Near the village, over the side of a wooded dell, it makes a picturesque fall, first a sheer leap of 50 feet, then in two streams that meet in a little pool, and thence down a series of inclined descents, the total height being between 80 and 90 feet. A grotto opposite was visited on 5 Sept. 1803 by Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, who writes in her Journal (ed. by Principal Shairp, 1874):-' We entered a dungeon-like passage, and, after walking some yards in total darkness, found ourselves in a quaint apartment stuck over with moss, hung about with stuffed foxes and other wild animals, and ornamented with a library of wooden books covered with old leatherbacks, the mock furniture of a hermit's cell. At the end of the room, through a large bow window, we saw the waterfall, and, at the same time, looking down to the left, the village of Kenmore and a part of the lake-a very beautiful prospect. '
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a burn" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Kenmore ScoP Perthshire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Acharn |
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