History
Over One Hundred Years Old!
Morar Hotel was built in 1902 and is now over one hundred years old. It was originally built as a Station hotel and is only metres from the train station. During its quiet history, the Morar hotel has seen only four owners and has had a long tradition of being a family run hotel. The MacKellaig family, the original owners who ran it until 1973, the MacLeod family who ran it until 2003, the Manson family to mid June 2005. In July of 2006 the hotel was purchased by the Scott family who also own the Angus Hotel in Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
Morar has seen little change in the past century, and is still a quiet sleepy village at the end of the Road to the Isles. The scenery is as unspoilt as it was when it inspired celebrated composer, Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953), on his many summer stays in the hotel.
Morar has a rich Jacobite tradition, and it was through the district that the Young Pretender fled after the battle of Culloden in 1746. The Jacobite Lord Lovat was captured on the islands in Loch Morar before being taken to London for execution in the same year.
Traditionally, Morar was at the centre of An Garbh Chriochan, the Roughbounds or the Highlands of the Highlands, but in 1901 the construction of the famed West Highland line was completed. Previously journeys to Morar took seven and a half hours by coach, with the introduction of the Steam train, the journey took only one and a half hours from Fort William. And today Fort William is just fifty minutes distant by road or by the special steam hauled service that runs on the West Highland line in the summer months
