Qualla: Luss https://qualla.com/luss en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Luss https://qualla.com/luss Luss: Introduction https://qualla.com/luss/ One hundred and twenty people live in Luss. Over 750,000 visit each year. The math works only if you remember that between 1980 and 2003, Scottish Television filmed the long-running drama Take the High Road in this little Loch Lomond village, renamed it 'Glendarroch' for the show, and embedded its slate-roofed cottages and lochside pier in the imaginations of viewers across Britain. The series stopped production over two decades ago. The visitors did not. They still come down the A82, park behind the bypass that has spared the village from through-traffic since 1992, and walk past the rose-trimmed cottages looking for somewhere they only ever saw on television.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/x/luss-wp/gcux-luss-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Luss: Saint Kessog's Quiet Corner https://qualla.com/luss/ Long before Luss was Glendarroch, it was Clachan dhu - the dark village - tucked beneath the Luss Hills on the loch's western bank. Christianity arrived early. Saint Kessog, an Irish missionary, is said to have brought the faith here in the early sixth century, in the same era th...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/x/luss-wp/gcux-luss-saint-kessogs-quiet-corner.mp3 0:06 2 full Luss: The Drowned Father and the Memorial Church https://qualla.com/luss/ The current Church of Scotland building was completed in 1875 by Sir James Colquhoun, 5th Baronet, in memory of his father - the 4th Baronet, also Sir James - who had drowned in the loch in December 1873. The Colquhouns have held Luss as their ancestral seat for centuries; the cl...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/x/luss-wp/gcux-luss-the-drowned-father-and-the-memorial-church.mp3 0:06 3 full Luss: Wee Peter, and the Trouble with Stories https://qualla.com/luss/ About a mile south, in a cove at Aldochlay, a small stone figure stands on a plinth knee-deep in the loch. Locals call him Wee Peter. A legend grew up that he commemorates a child who drowned here. The truth is sadder and more ordinary: a local stonemason erected the statue in 18...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/x/luss-wp/gcux-luss-wee-peter-and-the-trouble-with-stories.mp3 0:06 4 full Luss: A Village Built for Looking https://qualla.com/luss/ Luss is now formally a conservation village, with thirty-six buildings in its Outstanding Conservation Area, twenty-four of them Category B or C listed. Several of the cottages share names that announce their twinning: Avonlea and Ivy Bank, Fernlea and Ivy Cottage, Laurel Cottage...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/x/luss-wp/gcux-luss-a-village-built-for-looking.mp3 0:06 5 full Luss: Ben Lomond, North https://qualla.com/luss/ Step onto the pier and turn north. Ben Lomond closes the view - the most southerly Munro in Scotland, 974 metres of sandstone and gneiss rising directly from the eastern shore. The peak is a magnet for day-walkers from Glasgow because it is reachable by car-and-boat in a single m...

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