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Lochaber is an area in the west of the Scottish Highlands. Historically it referred to the area between Loch Linnhe and Loch Leven, around the town of Fort William. It is now also used to refer to a much wider area, one of the 16 ward management areas of the Highland Council of Scotland and one of eight former local government districts of the two-tier Highland region.
The ward management area is one of five comprising the Highland Council's Ross, Skye and Lochaber corporate management area, which is one of three Highland Council corporate management areas. The Ross, Skye and Lochaber area consists of six out of the 22 wards of the council area and the Lochaber area consists of two wards, the Caol and Mallaig ward, which elects three councillors, and the Fort William and Ardnamurchan ward, which elects four councillors. Each of the other wards of the corporate area is a separate ward management area.
There is also a Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster), but its boundaries are not exactly those of the council corporate management area. The constituency was created in 2005 with boundaries based on those of wards in use during the period 1999 to 2007.
According to legend a glaistig, an evil woman-goat hybrid, once lived in the area.
Lochaber is an area of the Highlands of Scotland.
Lochaber can also mean:
Usage examples of "lochaber".
Fleet said, in the course of a visit he was paying Elma Champion and Lochaber, that the insurance company was going to pay off the five thousand face of the policy, but it would be two or three days before the check was ready.
Four or five gunshots crashed out, and at least two of the bullets came through the door after Lochaber and the girl.
When they passed under a street lamp, Doc could see Lochaber was sweating profusely.
Doc, looking through the door, between the moving figures, saw that it was his own car, the machine he had left in the woods with Lochaber and Elma Champion locked inside.
The Thane of Lochaber wrapped Elen in his arms, his grey-streaked beard tickling her cheek as it always did.
Elen saw Duncan say something to Bancho of Lochaber, who then hurried to speak to the disputing men.
Now they are plotting against me-Macbeth, Bancho and Lochaber, all of the northern nobles.
Thorfinn the Mighty was there, and Bancho of Lochaber with his son Fergus, a slender seventeen-year-old fresh from his first battle.
In total silence, Conal macDuff and Bancho of Lochaber draped about his shoulders a gold-edged mantle of royal purple.
Royce shouted a warning, and Malcolm Lamont and his man-at-arms, Lochaber, stepped out of the fortress, followed by the women and children.
Glenure rode on the fatal day from Fort William to his home in Appin, the way was lined with marksmen of the Camerons of Lochaber, lurking with their guns among the brushwood and behind the rocks.
The warning, then, probably came from a Cameron in Lochaber, not from a Stewart in Appin.
Before Frances had married the Earl of Lochaber, she had been married to Lord Robert Sedburgh, the eldest son of the Earl and Countess of Aysgarth, and she had had a daughter by him before he died.
Their furtive eyes raked the houses, but they did not pause in the long loping trot with which of a moonlight night they had often slunk through the Lochaber passes.
Bass Foster, roaring something that sounded a bit like a song and was certainly not in French, and swinging to deadly effect something that looked a good bit like a Lochaber ax.