FORT WILLIAM | 4K Narrated Walking Tour | Let's Walk 2021

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Join me for a walk around the centre of Fort William, Scotland's 'wettest' town nestled on the country's rugged west coast at the foot of the mighty Ben Nevis, Britain's tallest mountain. From its origins as Maryburgh, which grew up around a 17th-century fort, to its role as a hub for adventure tourism, Fort William is full of riveting history and spectacular scenery (even in the rain!)
On our walk around Fort William, we pass a number of interesting landmarks, including the Old Fort, Loch Linnhe, the start/end marker of the Great Glen Way, Fort William Station, Duncansburgh Parish Church, Cow Hill, Hiroshima Peace Bell, St. Andrew's Church, High Street, the Imperial Hotel, Cameron Square, the Highland Cinema, the West Highland Museum, Henry Alexander's Model-T Ford and the MacIntosh Memorial Church.
Thank you so much to the following sites for their help in my research of Fort William:
visitfortwilliam.co.uk
www.scotland.org/live-in-scot...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/1...
www.thedmac.co.uk/duncansburg...
www.gpsmycity.com/attractions...
www.westhighlandmuseum.org.uk...
www.undiscoveredscotland.co.u...
www.highlifehighland.com/benn...
visitfortwilliam.co.uk/pages/...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...
0:00 The Old Fort of Fort William
2:01 View over Loch Linnhe from Old Fort
2:23 The Old Fort of Fort William
3:09 Great Glen Way Start/End Marker
3:30 The Old Fort of Fort William
3:41 Fort William, Scottish Highlands
4:14 View of Cow Hill above Supermarket Car Park
5:13 Fort William Station
6:03 Tunnel to Fort William town centre
6:52 Fort William, Scottish Highlands
7:02 Aonach Mòr Cable Car Pod
7:21 The Parade
7:58 Statue of Donald Cameron
8:27 Fort William & District War Memorial
8:40 The Parade
8:49 Duncansburgh Parish Church
9:21 The Boys' Brigade Memorial
9:35 Duncansburgh Parish Church
10:05 The Parade
10:15 Hiroshima Peace Bell
10:56 The Parade
11:19 Parade Road
11:52 High Street
12:14 St. Andrew's Church
12:59 High Street
13:11 Fort William Bank
13:26 Fraser Square
13:42 The Imperial Hotel
13:54 Fraser Square
14:02 High Street
15:17 Cameron Square
15:39 Highland Cinema
15:55 West Highland Museum
16:41 Henry Alexander's Model-T Ford Bronze Statue
17:37 Volunteer Arms
18:01 High Street
18:55 View towards Loch Linnhe
19:08 Monzie Square
19:49 MacIntosh Memorial
21:01 Fassifern Road
21:39 View over Fort William and Loch Linnhe
22:03 Thank you for watching!
Stats for nerds:
Distance walked: 0.9 miles/1.4km
Step count: 1800 steps (approx.)
Time taken: 21 mins 32 secs
Average speed: 2.5mph/4kmh
Please do not use any footage from this video without my permission.

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18 май 2022

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@LetsWalkUK 2 года назад

🎤 To watch with subtitles, please click the 'CC' button on your RU-vid video player :) Good evening! And welcome to this walk around the rugged, rainy West Highland town of Fort William, a place full of history and spectacular sights, whatever the weather! As for some bonus info on the town, we mentioned how some have said Fort William should change to its Gaelic name 'An Gearasdan' (and I embarrassed myself trying to pronounce it!). While Scottish Gaelic is more widely spoken in the Highlands, only around 7% of the population speak it in Fort William, significantly less than the Outer Hebrides off the Mainland, where around 60% of people speak Gaelic!

@jjt9201 4 месяца назад

Great . Thanks a lot.

@steviewonder6952 6 месяцев назад

At the start of the video, just behind you, in the late 1970s when I was about 13 was the railway station, and outside it was an ornamental well, with a big steel plate covering it, on the plate was a slot where the tourists put paper money in £5s £10s and £20s. A packet of 20 cigarettes was 60p. We used toffee apple sticks with chewing gum on the end to lift the money out. Along the high street on the left was a restaurant/take away called McTavish's that had video gaming machines inside like pacman. We used to spend the money in them We used to buy lobsters from the fishermen down at the pier on loch Linnhe. We took them to the men's toilets in the restaurant, filled the sink with water and made them fight. About ten of us used to gamble on the lobster fights. On the high street years later was a bank before the road was pedestrianised I was sitting in my Rover SD1 the type that the speed cops drove, waiting on my mum. The cops came up and started shouting at me to get my car away from outside the bank. Happy Days.

@WanderingWalksofWonder 2 года назад

🌞 Amazing Walk !!! Thanks for sharing this video!🌞I love history and this was so cool to see!

@RelaxedRoamer 2 года назад

I just want to say thanks for another wonderful walking tour. Enjoyed watching it 😍

@festivaljapan 2 года назад

Great Video.I'm your fan.

@eprohoda 2 года назад

Good day! omg- fantastc ~ friend- 👋

@idatipping2428 2 года назад

Thank You,your comments make all the difference

@mikeswift6713 2 года назад

Great video again, stopped for lunch there on my 1969 2,000 mile learning to drive trip around Scotland, it worked, I passed first time. In 2014 we discovered Bay Hotels and stayed at The Caledonian just outside the town, it was used as a base for exploring the region and we only went into Fort William twice, strangely to the supermarket where you filmed, for diesel and to get some haggis on the way home. We also passed through a few times exploring during our 8 holidays in Scotland between 2014 and 2020, we were due to visit again in March 2020 but that didn’t turn out well?