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    Glensanda (Old Norse, the glen of the sandy river) was a Viking settlement at the mouth of Glen Sanda on the Morvern peninsula within south west Lochaber...
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  • the production director at Glensanda was Kurt Larson, John and Angela Yeoman's son-in-law. By 1992, production at Glensanda had reached five million tonnes...
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    aggregate delivered by ship from the Foster Yeoman coastal super quarry at Glensanda in Loch Linnhe on the west coast of Scotland. On the French side, owing...
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    Britain, rich with their cotton business. Strutt bought the Scottish Glensanda estate where his son was lost and was found as a clothed skeleton five...
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  • Fishing, Cargo No Dundee Harbour Dundee Dundee City Commercial No Glensanda harbour Glensanda Highland Quarry No Peterhead Harbour Peterhead Aberdeenshire...
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    Maclean of Coll Maclean of Ardgour Lands Ardgour Coll Castles Duart Castle Glensanda Castle Septs Beath Beaton Black Garvie Lean MacBeath MacBheath MacBeth...
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    promontory on the north-west coast of the island, across Loch Linnhe from Glensanda, at grid reference NM853437. Coeffin Castle was built on the site of a...
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    with lead mining and slate quarrying being of former importance, but the Glensanda superquarry, in Morvern on the opposite bank of Loch Linnhe also provides...
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    quantities of granite aggregate could be delivered there by ship from Glensanda in Scotland, and the finished sections could then be transported by a...
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    is applied to a large area of countryside around the village, from the Glensanda Superquarry, Kingairloch and Kilmalieu in the south and west (bordering...
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