Glenborrodale

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| official_name = Glenborrodale

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| gaelic_name = Gleann Bhorghdail

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Glenborrodale ({{langx|gd|Gleann Bhorghdail}}) is a coastal community on Loch Sunart in the south of the Ardnamurchan peninsula in the Highland area of Scotland.

It gives its name to a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds' reserve in the nearby oakwoods.{{cite book|last1=Harrap|first1=Simon|last2=Redman|first2=Nigel |title=Where to Watch Birds in Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ATJLAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT747|year=2013|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4081-9419-5|page=747}}

In May 1746, following the Jacobite rising of 1745 two French supply ships were attacked off Glenborrodale by three ships of the Royal Navy.

File:Glenborrodale School.jpg

Glenborrodale Castle{{cite book|last=Louttit|first=James |title=Scotland 1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7k0v3kmnnBcC|date=April 1991|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-553-34973-3|page=233}} was built circa 1902 as a guest house by Charles Rudd, the main business associate of Cecil Rhodes. A later owner was Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (1868–1932), of Sudbourne Hall in Suffolk, a wealthy Scottish industrialist whose fortune derived from cotton thread manufacturing conducted by the family firm of Clark & Co Ltd, of Paisley,Grace's Guide To British Industrial History[https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Clark_and_Co_(of_Paisley)] and the father of the art historian Kenneth Clark, 1st Baron Clark (1903-1983). Clark bought Rudd's 75,000 acre Ardnamurchan estate, together with its two houses built by Rudd, namely Glenborrodale Castle (used for deer stalking) and Sheilbridge (used for salmon fishing). The Clarks used Sheilbridge and let Glenborrodale to "a grim old Scottish financier named Fleming".Clark, Kenneth, "Another Part Of The Wood", 1974, pp.88-9 Another later owner was Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent, the proprietor of the Boots chain of chemist shops. The grounds of Glenborrodale include Risga and Eilean an Feidh.{{cite web|url=http://bellingram.reapitcloud.com/belrps/pdf.php?p=OBN160181|title=Glenborrodale Castle|publisher=Bell Ingram|access-date=3 March 2019}}

When Glenborrodale castle was listed for sale in 2018, a news report indicated that it has 16 bedrooms and was built in red Dumfriesshire sandstone.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2024-11-14 |title=Spectacular Scottish castles and estates for sale |url=https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/spectacular-scottish-castles-and-estates-for-sale-71895 |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=Country Life |language=en}} It had previously operated as a small hotel and event venue. The property consists of {{convert|133|acre|ha|abbr=off}}.https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/a-scottish-castle-on-the-ardnamurchan-peninsula-lists-for-3-75-million-68889, Scottis Castle Additional structures on the property included a gate lodge, coach house, gym, boathouse and a jetty.{{Cite web |date=2018-08-03 |title=This 16-bedroom Scottish castle for sale comes with two uninhabited islands |url=https://www.housebeautiful.com/uk/lifestyle/property/a22634965/glenborrodale-castle-scotland-islands-for-sale/ |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=House Beautiful |language=en-GB}}