Glenbranter Forest Map 1937
The map is courtesy of Glenbranter Forest office staff with particular thanks to Ian Adams who has stored these old files for many years. See the PDF for the full large scale map.
This map is a little different to the planting maps of other forests of this time. The services of surveyor M Long (possibly based in Edinburgh Office) have been used to provide a good quality survey of the whole forest as at 1937. The compartment numbering begins around Glenbranter House area and follows quite a logical sequence through the rest of the forest up and down the glens but does not reflect the strict order of the new planting. A separate set of numbers (1- 30) for some unknown reason (Part of Loch Eck Forest?) begins on the hillside on the east side of Loch Eck above Whistlefield Inn and thence up the loch towards the burn of Coire Ealt where they end. Some much later planting in 1961-1964 higher up the hill has been added to the map and indicated in a darker wash. Very unfortunately no tree species are annotated.
The planting years are annotated as usual at numerous points on the map (P22 – planted 1922) but the boundaries of each year’s progress are not clearly delineated. Quite a number of pencil lines and numbers have been added to some areas and again their meaning is not fully understood. Any suggestions would be welcome. There is no mention of actual species planted.
The then forester’s house is annotated and one assumes it is the building just south west of Glenshellish. The Forest Worker Holdings and their outruns are all numbered and certainly the list goes as high as No14 but there are other numbers in the area on the east side of Loch Eck. The 1951 Forest History confirms the total as 19 Forest Worker Holdings. The two areas annotated as MOL are the Ministry of Labour camps set up around 1935 at Glenbranter House and at the River Cur close to the forest nursery. In addition to Forest Worker Holdings there are areas known as Small Tenancy lets and may be areas of grazing land without attached houses or in some cases the actual houses themselves. Any comments on these would be welcome. Helpfully a table has been added in the top left hand side of the map which lists the planting years from 1922 to 1937 and the total area planted in each.
Note that the original farm names have been retained for the the four geographically distinct areas - Ballemeanach, Invernoaden, Stuck and Balliemore.
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