Badachro


Badachro is a former fishing village, in the northwest Highlands of Scotland.

Geography

Badachro sits about 3 km south of Gairloch on the shore of Gair Loch, and is a natural harbour popular with yachts. Approximately 2 miles to the SE are located the Fairy Lochs, the site of a 1945 plane crash which is now a designated war grave. The crash site has been preserved as a memorial to the USAAF servicemen who lost their lives in the accident and is accessible by a rough track near the Shieldaig Lodge Hotel.
Badachro is in the Highland Council area. Queen Victoria visited Shieldaig Lodge Hotel in 1877.

Fishing

At the end of the nineteenth century, Badachro was a busy fishing village. Cod landed there and at Gairloch, and were dried at one of two curing stations at Badachro. Today, lobster, crab, and prawns are fished for markets south of the town.