River Foyers
The River Foyers is a beauteous but relatively short river, just two miles or so, in Inverness-shire which drops down into the Great Glen and into Loch Ness at Foyers, on the south shore of the loch. Above the village, as the water pours over the steep edge of the Great Glen, it forms the celebrated Falls of Foyers.
The river is formed by the union of streams in Stratherrick, in particular the River Fechlin runnng off the Monadhliath Mountains, the Cumrack Burn and the River Gourag coming from Loch Mhòr
In 1895, the North British Aluminium Company built an aluminium plant on the shore of Loch Ness and used the waters of the river to generate electricity. All materials were transported to and from Foyers by boat and a light railway was built to connect the works and a wharf. However by 1904 the aluminium producers' attention turned away to the more convenient site at Kinlochleven. Aluminium production at Foyers ceased in in 1967.[1]
Outside links
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- The River Foyers: UK Rivers Guidebook
- Fishing in the River Foyers: Fishbrain
