Falls of Glas Allt

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Falls of Glas Allt is a 50-metre (160 ft) waterfall near the head of Loch Muick, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [1] Queen Victoria liked to take walks here beside the stream flowing from Lochnagar down to Loch Muick. After the death of Prince Albert she had a cottage, Glas-allt-Shiel, rebuilt for her on the delta where the stream flows into the loch. [2]

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References

  1. Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale Explorer map series, sheets 309-470
  2. Stott, Louis (1987). The Waterfalls of Scotland. Aberdeen University Press. p. 62. ISBN   0 08 032424 X.

Coordinates: 56°55′57″N3°12′04″W / 56.93251°N 3.20114°W / 56.93251; -3.20114

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