Editing Glencoe, Highland (section)

==Culture and community==
Within Carnoch there is a small village shop, a [[Scottish Episcopal Church]], Glencoe Folk Museum,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.glencoemuseum.com/|title=Glencoe Folk Museum|website=glencoemuseum.com|access-date=12 Oct 2019}}</ref> Post Office, Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team centre, an outdoor centre, a number of bed and breakfast establishments, and a small primary school. The small Museum was started after a resident discovered "a cache of 200-year-old swords and pistols hidden there from the British Redcoats after the disastrous battle of Culloden".<ref name="auto"/>

Several eating establishments are around including the Glencoe Hotel, Glencoe Cafe and The [[Clachaig Inn]].  Glencoe is also a popular location for self-catering holidays; with many chalets, cottages and lodges available for weekly and short break rental. Also located in the village, but along the A82, is the Glencoe Visitor Centre, run by the National Trust for Scotland.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/glencoe/highlights/visitor-centre|title=Glencoe Visitor Centre|website=National Trust for Scotland|access-date=12 Oct 2019}}</ref> This modern (constructed in 2002) visitor centre houses a coffee shop, store, and information centre.  Nearby memorials sites are the Celtic cross at the [[Massacre of Glencoe Monument|Massacre of Glencoe Memorial]], and plaque at [[Henderson Stone]] (''Clach Eanruig'').

The village is surrounded by spectacular mountain scenery and is popular with serious hill-walkers, rock and ice climbers. Travel writer [[Rick Steves]] describes the area as exhibiting "the wild, powerful and stark beauty of the Highlands...  dramatic valley, where the cliffsides seem to weep with running streams when it rains".<ref name="auto"/> The area has been seen in numerous films, including ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' as the home of [[Hagrid]], and the 2012 [[James Bond]] film ''[[Skyfall]]''.

In [[Ian Fleming]]'s original novel ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel)|On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'' [[James Bond (literary character)|James Bond]] tells Sir Hilary Bray, a [[genealogist]] with the [[College of Arms|Royal College of Arms]], his father was from the Highlands, near Glencoe and in Fleming's other novel ''[[You Only Live Twice (novel)|You Only Live Twice]]'' [[M (James Bond)|M]]'s obituary for Bond also mentions his father, Andrew Bond, was from Glencoe.

Well-known residents include [[Hamish MacInnes]], mountaineer and inventor of the MacInnes Stretcher.