Nether Lochaber
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Nether Lochaber in Lochaber
Lochaber
District of Lochaber 1975 to 1996Highland council area shown as one of the council areas of ScotlandLochaber is one of the 16 ward management areas of the Highland Council of Scotland and one of eight former local government districts of the two-tier Highland region...

, Highland
Highland (council area)
Highland is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in both Scotland and the United Kingdom as a whole. It shares borders with the council areas of Moray, Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross, and Argyll and Bute. Their councils, and those of Angus and...

, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

, is the modern (1950s) name for the Parish of 'Ballachulish and Onich'. This Parish was formed, in 1911, out of the Quoad Sacra Parish of 'Ballachulish and Corran of Ardgour
Ardgour
Ardgour is a district of Lochaber on Ardnamurchan peninisula on the western shore of Loch Linnhe, in Highland Scotland.The term Ardgour, together with Kingairloch, is applied to a large area of countryside around the village, from the Glensanda Superquarry, Kingairloch and Kilmalieu in the south...

' which itself was formed, in 1829, out of the Parish of 'Kilmallie
Kilmallie
Kilmallie is the name of a civil parish in and around the settlement of Caol, Fort William, Scotland. It gives its name to the local shinty club, Kilmallie Shinty Club....

' when the Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder.-Early career:...

 Parliamentary churches were built at Creag Mhor
Creag Mhòr
Creag Mhòr is a Scottish mountain which stands in the ancient Forest of Mamlorn deer forest, it is located ten kilometres north east of Tyndrum on the border between the Perth and Kinross and Stirling council areas.- Overview :...

 in (north) Ballachulish and at Ardgour.

Nether Lochaber is made up of Onich and North Ballachulish.
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