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Fort Augustus

Fort Augustus is a village in The Great Glen, the fault line that traverses the Scottish Highlands. It's at the south end of Loch Ness, midway between Fort William and Inverness, and in 2023 had a population of about 650. Originally called Cille Chuimein (Church of St Cummein, anglicised as "Kiliwhimin"), it was renamed for Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, who crushed the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. The fort has disappeared beneath later buildings and the main reason to stop off here is to see Loch Ness and the Caledonian Canal. Invermoriston is a village five miles north along Loch...[Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA]

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