Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Laggan

Laggan.-- par. and hamlet, Badenoch dist., Inverness-Shire--par., 150,106 ac., pop. 917; hamlet, on river Spey, 11 miles SW. of Kingussie; P.O.; Mrs Grant of Laggan (1755-1836), authoress of several popular works on the Highlands, lived in the manse here from 1779 to 1803; the par. contams Loch Laggan, 7 miles long NE. and SW.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Laggan ScoP       Inverness Shire ScoCnty
Place: Laggan

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