Morar has seen little change in the past century, and is still a quiet sleepy village at the end of the Road to the Isles. The scenery is as unspoilt as it was when it inspired celebrated composer, Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953), on his many summer stays in the hotel.
Morar has a rich Jacobite tradition, and it was through the district that the Young Pretender fled after the battle of Culloden in 1746. The Jacobite Lord Lovat was captured on the islands in Loch Morar before being taken to London for execution in the same year. Traditionally, Morar was at the centre of An Garbh Chriochan, the Roughbounds or the Highlands of the Highlands, but in 1901 the construction of the famed West Highland line was completed. Previously journeys to Morar took seven and a half hours by coach, with the introduction of the Steam train, the journey took only one and a half hours from Fort William. And today Fort William is just fifty minutes distant by road.
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