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Arrochar; is a village situated near the head of Loch Long, on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands. The town is within the Loch Lomond as well as The Trossachs National Park. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it is overlooked by a group of mountains called the Arrochar Alps, as well as particularly by the unique rocky summit of the Cobbler. It delights in good communications as it goes to the junction of the A83 as well as A814 roadways as well as is served by Arrochar and also Tarbet railway station. Additionally the A82 roadway runs through Tarbet two miles to the east. For over 5 centuries this area, the feudal barony of Arrochar, was held by the chiefs of Clan MacFarlane as well as before them by their ancestors the barons of Arrochar. The household is Celtic in the male line as well as belonging to their Highland homeland of tall heights and also deep lochs simply above the waist of Scotland. The settlement was an essential target for Viking raiders that took their boats 2 miles overland to Tarbet to strike the unprotected inland negotiations at Loch Lomond before their loss in 1263 at the battle of Largs. The western end of Arrochar notes the standard border of Argyllshire and Dunbartonshire, as well as this remained the instance under local government reorganisation in 1975. However, in 1996 the limits of Argyll and Bute and also West Dunbartonshire were significantly redrawn, bringing the entire location right into Argyll as well as Bute.