Summer and Winter alike Top of the Fort offers opportunities for that romantic break or, for the energetic, who can resist the call of those mountains just waiting to be climbed. Steeped in history, with the original fort built in the years after the Jacobite uprising of 1715 and named for the Duke of Cumberland, the fort was subsequently captured and held briefly by the Jacobites in 1745 just before their march South. More recently it became a Benedictine Monastery and a boys school. The Fort's history is apparent throughout from our corner of the star-shaped layout of the fort to the stained glass windows of the benefactors in the old refectory, the cloisters and the old church.