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There are two principal settlements (both villages) Dalavich, with a lovely setting beside Loch Awe, to the south of the community and Kilchrenan to the North. Kilchrenan is close to the Loch also and the hamlet of Inverinan, which lies approximately equi-distant between the two on the C29 is little more than a stone’s throw away from its shores.

Smaller settlements exist along the Lochavich road to the southwest and along the roads to Ardanaiseig, Tervine and Taychreggan ( North Port). The area can be approached from the south via the village of Ford, which lies just to the easterly side of the A816,(Lochgilphead to Oban Road), from the west via Kilmelford Village which sits astride the A816 and from the north via the large village of Taynuilt which is on the A85 Oban to Glasgow trunk road. The principal road linking the main settlements is the B 845 stretching from Taynuilt down to Kilchrenan and thence the C29 from Kilchrenan to Dalavich via Inverinan. The major portion of this road follows fairly closely the westerly shores of Loch Awe.
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Other than those who find employment or establish businesses in the area it is not the settlements in themselves which draw people to either live or holiday here but the wonderful unspoilt landscapes, a generally more hassle-free lifestyle and some peace and quiet!

The area is of course dominated by Loch Awe, Scotland’s longest and one of its most beautiful fresh-water lochs. Its much smaller neighbour Loch Avich, located along the Kilmelford road near Dalavich is at least as beautiful. Other lochs, such as Lochs Nant, Tromlee, Spectacle Lochs and other smaller lochans can be visited on foot. The Lochs are all surrounded by beautiful hills, some part wooded and some handsomely craggy.

To the North and outwith the community lies mighty Ben Cruachan, one of Scotland’s highest Monros rising impressively to approximately 3700 ft. There is a superb vista of its two peaks when driving in a northerly direction from Kilchrenan, towards Taynuilt just beyond Barachander. Beyond here you enter Glen Nant, host to the babbling waters of the River Nant and an area of Special Scientific Interest where natural re-forestation has taken place after resources were previously plundered for charcoal to fire the the iron furnace at Taynuilt in the 18th and 19th Centuries.

The drive alongside Loch Awe down to Dalavich is also attractive, particularly as more vistas have been opened up in recent years by substantial felling of the commercial timber. The meandering ten mile drive along the delightful road from Dalavich via Loch Avich to Kilmelford is truly outstanding.

Employment in the area embraces tourism, farming and crofting ( primarily hill-farming/sheep,some cattle and limited arable), forestry, fish farming ( rainbow trout) and some small scale road-stone quarrying. Many people commute daily to Oban, some to Lochgilphead, other parts of Argyll, the Central Belt and some considerably further afield, including London!