Glen Roy

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Glen Roy in the Lochaber area of the Highlands of Scotland is a National Nature Reserve and is noted for the geological puzzle of the three roads ("Parallel Roads"), which are in fact preserved ice-age lake shorelines. From a distance they resemble man-made roads running along the side of the Glen, hence the name.

The glen runs north from Glen Spean which takes the main A86 trunk road and the railway of the West Highland Line, both running about a further 14 miles southwest to Fort William. Roy Bridge railway station and the village of Roybridge are sited where the River Roy joins the River Spean, and from there a narrow single track road runs north up the glen for almost 10 miles to Brae Roy Lodge.

[edit] References

• SNH Publications - Landscape Fashioned by Geology - Glen Roy
• Glen Roy Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
• Observations on the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, and of other parts of Lochaber in Scotland, with an attempt to prove that they are of marine origin. By CHARLES DARWIN, Esq., M.A. F.R.S. Sec. G.S (1839)