Badachro
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Badachro (Template:Langx)<ref>Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland</ref> is a former fishing village, in the northwest Highlands of Scotland.
Geography
Badachro sits about 3 km south of Gairloch on the shore of Gair Loch, and is a natural harbour popular with yachts.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Approximately 2 miles to the SE are located the Fairy Lochs, the site of a 1945 plane crash which is now a designated war grave. The crash site has been preserved as a memorial to the USAAF servicemen who lost their lives in the accident and is accessible by a rough track near the Shieldaig Lodge Hotel.
Badachro is in the Highland Council area.
Queen Victoria visited Shieldaig Lodge Hotel in 1877<ref>Malone, D. 'Exploring Gairloch’s South Side', Gairloch Museum, Printed The Gairloch and District Times.</ref> but never made it to Badchro village itself as the roads were too bad. Today Shieldaig Lodge is home to a small watersports centre Gairloch Canoe and Kayak Centre.
Fishing
At the end of the nineteenth century, Badachro was a busy fishing village.<ref name="AmB">Template:Cite web</ref> Cod landed here and at Gairloch, was dried at one of two curing stations at Badachro - one on Eilean Horrisdale (cured by resident Kenneth Bain, master seaman) and one on Eilean Tioram. Today, lobster, crab, and prawns are landed for markets in the south and Europe.<ref name="AmB"/>