Badachro

Badachro
Boats pulled up on the grass at Badachro
Badachro  Badachro shown within the Highland council area
OS grid reference	NG781736
Civil parish	Gairloch
Council area	Highland
Lieutenancy area	Ross and Cromarty
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	GAIRLOCH
Postcode district	IV21
Dialling code	01445
Police	Scottish
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
EU Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
Scottish Parliament	Ross, Skye and Inverness West
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Coordinates: 57°41′51″N 5°43′29″W / 57.69738°N 5.72468°W / 57.69738; -5.72468

Badachro (Scottish Gaelic: Bad a' Chrò)^[1] is a former fishing village, in the north west Highlands of Scotland.

Geography

Badachro sits about 3 km south of Gairloch on the shore of Gair Loch, and is an excellent natural harbour popular with yachts.^[2] It is scenic and has a pub called the Badacro Inn and a small restaurant. 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.

Fishing

At the end of the nineteenth century, Badachro was a busy fishing village.^[3] Cod, landed here and at Gairloch, was dried at one of two curing stations at Badachro - one on Eilean Horrisdale and one on Eilean Tioram. Today, lobsters, crabs and prawns are landed for markets in the south and in Europe.^[3]

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