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Corrour Lodge is situated at the eastern end of Loch Ossian on the Corrour Estate on Rannoch Moor, Scotland. It is a large modernist residence (also let as luxury holiday accommodation) which opened in 2004 in place of Old Corrour Lodge, which had been destroyed by fire in 1942. The previous lodge had been built in 1896 for John Stirling-Maxwell when he purchased the estate. Earlier still a building now referred to as Corrour Old Lodge had been the estate house and was some three miles to the south. The location is very remote – the entrance drive from the nearest public road is eleven miles long. However Corrour railway station is only about four miles away. ==Corrour Estate== The vast Loch Treig Estates, of which Corrour was a part, were owned by the Macdonalds of Keppoch from the 14th century. In 1834 the Duke of Gordon sold the estates to John Walker of Crawfordton, who died in 1857, for £45,000. There was only of arable land. An 1842 account of Kilmonivaig parish, stated that "Perhaps there is no part of the Highlands where nature has done more, and landlords so little, for the benefits of the inhabitants as some parts of the parish". Sir George Gustavus Walker inherited the estate in 1857 at a time when field sports were becoming more popular in the Scottish Highlands following a relaxation in the law. Walker converted Corrour Old Lodge to a shooting lodge but, despite the lodge's inaccessibility, the deer forest was relatively restricted at in 1883. However, with a decline in sheep farming, the deer forest was extended to by 1891 and grouse shooting and trout fishing were developed.〔 Stirling-Maxwell purchased the estate at this time and built a new lodge, the one now called Old Corrour Lodge, on a south-facing slope and at a lower elevation on the eastern shore of Loch Ossian. He undertook forestry planting, in particular attempting upland plantations. As well as planting Scots pine, he experimented with lodgepole pine, European and Japanese larch, and Sitka spruce, the last of which was a particular success. His influential work led to Stirling-Maxwell becoming chairman of the Forestry Commission from 1929 to 1932. World War II led to financial difficulty and most of the land was sold to the Forestry Commission in 1966 with sporting rights retained by the family. The Forestry Commission constructed an access track from the north east in 1972.〔 Following a change in the law in 1981, the family bought back the land.〔 In 1995 the estate was sold to Corrour Estate Company Ltd of which the beneficial owner was Lisbet Rausing. By 2003, after a number of company transfers, 99% was transferred to the Corrour Trust, whose trustees are Lisbet Rausing and Richard Oldfield. In 2011 the Estate extended to .〔.〕〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Corrour Lodge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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