Bealach na Ba
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The Bealach na Ba (Gaelic: Pass of the Cattle, see Cattle droving) is a famous, twisting, single-track mountain road, rising to 626 metres (2053 feet) in the Applecross peninsula, in Wester Ross, Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland. It is one of very few roads in the Scottish Highlands which is engineered in a similar fashion to the great mountain passes in the Alps, with very tight hairpin bends which switch back and forth up the hillside, with gradients approaching 20%.
The road was featured in several episodes of the television series Hamish Macbeth (much of which was filmed in nearby Plockton), in which is it pictured as having a roadsign indicating: "Narrow road - no more than three sheep abreast".
[edit] External links
- Highlights of Scotland - the Bealach na Ba
- Scotland: the Movie Location Guide -Laxdale Hall - Bealach na Ba
- [1] - Bealach na Ba race
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