Lochaber Map

Lochaber is a name applied to areas of the Scottish Highlands. Historically it was a provincial lordship consisting of the parishes of Kilmali and Kilmonivaig as the were before reduced inb extent by the creation of Quoad Sacra parishes in the 19th century; This Lochaber extended from the Northern shore of Loch Leven a district called Nether Lochaber, to beyond Spean Bridge and Roybridge, which area is known as Brae Lochaber or Braigh Loch Abar in Gaelic.Lochaber is now also used to refer to a much wider area of of the 16 ward management areas of the Highland Council of Scotland one one of the eight former local governments districts of the two tier highland region.The main town of Lochaber is Fort William