page_title: Ben Ledi
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Ben Ledi / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Ben Ledi looking towards Callander I walked up with the chap paragliding who is a resident of Stirling but whose name escapes me.
context_page_description: Ben Ledi is a mountain in Stirling, Scotland. It is 879 m high, and is classified as a Corbett. It lies about 6.4 kilometres north-west of Callander, near the village of Kilmahog. It is situated in the Trossachs, an area often regarded as having some of the most romantic scenery in the Highlands.
context_section_description: Ben Ledi is particularly well known through Walter Scott's poem Lady of the Lake. Supposedly in ancient times,  Beltane rites were observed on the summit. There are what is thought to be possible references to these Beltane rights in some of the Gaelic names on the mountain: Creag Ghorn; 'Rock of Embers' and Creag Loisgte; 'Burned Rock'. In 1791 the Rev Doctor James Robertson being minister of the parish at the time, was required to write a description of the parish for the First Statistical Account of Scotland. In his report he mistakenly (due to the similarity to le dia) took the name Ben Ledi to mean 'hill of god' which suited the purposes of the kirk of the day. The name is in fact a corruption of Beinn Leitir which translates to 'the Hill of the Slope', which is a very suitable description of the long south shoulder used to access the summit. A cairn was built on the top in 1887 to commemorate Queen Victoria's jubilee.
  A small lochan, Lochan nan Corp, lies at 655 m above sea level about 1.5 km to the north of the summit. The name means "the little loch of the dead", and was thought to be named for an accident to a funeral party at which 200 lives were lost. In truth the lochan is on the old coffin road from Glen Finlas to St Bride's chapel close to Loch Lubnaig. The pass is therefore named the Bealach nan Corp - Pass of the Dead - and the lochan is named after the pass.
caption: View from the summit towards Callander past the iron cross commemorating Sgt. Harry Lawrie of Killin Mountain Rescue
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