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Balquhidder

Looking westward to Loch Voil

Lochearnhead

Looking northwards to Glen Ogle

Strathyre

Looking northward to Balquhidder Station

Welcome to the community council site for Balquhidder, Lochearnhead and Strathyre in the very beating heart of Scotland!

Our community council represents the residents of three villages in the North-East corner of the Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park. We form part of Ward No. 1 in the Stirling Council area and cover one of the largest areas of any community council in Stirlingshire. You can read a little more about each village at the bottom of this page.

For contact details of council officers, please click on OFFICERS above.

Latest updates

2nd November 2023

The website was last updated on this date.

See the links below for the most recent news items and features of interest.

C60 Bus Timetable

The C60 Bus Service has a newly revised timetable as from 4th November 2023 until March 2024. For further information, click below.

NEWS ITEMS

Winter Weather Volunteers

Volunteers are sought to help deal with ice and snow in our local communities during winter. For further details, please see:

NEWS ITEMS

Budget Survey

Stirling Council is undertaking a survey of proposed budget options. For details, click below.

BUDGET REVIEW

Place Plan

You can find details of the Community PLACE PLAN and associated DELIVERY PLANS for our area in the

FILING CABINET

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THE FILING CABINET

This is where we keep our documents that you can view and download. Most of them use Adobe Acrobat's "Portable Document Format" that can be seen easily in modern browsers.

The cabinet has various categories, including one for past minutes of the Community Council. Please feel free to explore and to view or download documents as you wish.

CLICK HERE FOR DOCUMENTS

Balquhidder

The elongated settlement of Balquhidder lies off to the West of the main North-South route at the head of Loch Voil. It is overlooked by the dramatic mountain scenery of the "Braes of Balquhidder" (immortalized in song by Robert Tannahill) and the Parish Kirk is famous for being the last resting place of Rob Roy MacGregor.

Back in the 8th or 9th Century, St Angus recognised Balquhidder as a "thin place" - where the boundary between Earth and Heaven is close. Around that time, Clan MacLaren first occupied the district until forced out by the MacGregors in the 16th Century.

Lochearnhead

The village of Lochearnhead is situated at the junction of the A84 and A85 trunk roads at the head of Loch Earn. This is where the main North-South route meets the East-West route along Strathearn. It has a rich and varied history but, in modern times, is known as the site for the area's Highland Games and the Lochearnhead Shears - one of the largest sheep-shearing competitions in the UK.

Strathyre

The village of Strathyre is the southernmost part of our area, following the course of the River Balvaig as it flows down from Loch Voil to Loch Lubnaig. It became well established in Victorian times with the arrival of the Callander & Oban Railway in the 1870s. William Wordsworth once stayed there and was apparently inspired to write The Solitary Reaper as a result. Strathyre now has the only remaining primary school in the area.

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